The Ukrainian military industry is incapable of filling the gap left after Western aid dried up. The hefty $60-billion package for Kiev remains deadlocked in the US Congress as the Ukrainian military is running out of weapons and ammunition. Why can’t Ukrainian arms-makers catch up with Russia?
🔶 Most of Ukraine’s industrial might deteriorated soon after the collapse of the USSR due to endemic corruption and power struggles in Kiev, military analyst Alexei Leonkov told Sputnik.
🔶 Ukraine can assemble drones and produce a few mortar rounds and Soviet-standard 122mm and 152mm projectiles, but it cannot make 155mm shells for NATO-grade arms, let alone air defense systems or high-precision missiles. “To build such a production, decades must pass”, a director of the National Association of Ukrainian Defense Industries told the Washington Post.
🔶 Ukrainian officials told the WaPo that the nation’s budget is not enough to ramp up the production of weapons, while the West avoids investing in Ukraine’s military industry. The US is uninterested in building Ukraine’s industrial sector since American contractors already have a production hub in Poland, Rt.Col. Anatoliy Matviychuk, a Russian military expert, told Sputnik.
🔶 A worldwide shortage of explosive chemicals caused by the crises in Ukraine and Gaza have disrupted supplies of gunpowder and rocket propellants to Ukraine.
🔶 Bureaucratic red tape and rampant corruption in Ukrainian ministries amplify production stoppages.
🔶 Russian air strikes on Ukrainian production facilities have curtailed Ukraine’s ability to manufacture arms. Some production has been relocated outside Ukraine and other processes moved underground; production stages have been broken up and duplicated. All of that diminishes an already anemic output.
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