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ARMY LETTER. Even beyond the question of stocks, the war in Ukraine requires a colossal logistical effort to ensure the support of the combatants.
By Jean Guisnel
© IGNACIO MARIN / ANADOLU AGENCY / Anadolu Agency via AFP
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Ihe war in Ukraine is a frenzied consumer of ammunition of all types, but especially of large caliber shells. The Russian army, with apparently inexhaustible stocks, must nevertheless think of restocking. It does this with its customers equipped with ex-Soviet equipment or on the same model, very numerous in the world. Among them, China, North Korea, or Iran; among others. Ukraine is not to be outdone and is looking everywhere for ammunition, where it can find it. Official market, gray market, black market… The business of intermediaries and carriers is doing well. “The rate of ammunition use by Ukraine is much higher than our current rate of production,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned a month ago.