Ukraine Is Eroding Russia's Military Advantage With Strikes On Its Ammo Depots

A satellite image of Tikhoretsk, the major Russian ammunition storage facility Ukraine attacked, on September 22.Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies.Ukrainian officials said its forces have reduced Russia's artillery advantage on the battlefield.Military experts said it's partly down to Ukraine's long-range strikes on Russian ammo depots.Ukraine struck three ammunition depots inside Russia last month, causing significant damage.Ukraine is reducing Russia's artillery advantage on the battlefield, and recent attacks on ammo depots have likely sped that up.Ukraine's deputy defense minister, Ivan Havryliuk, told Ukrainian television last week that Russian forces were now firing three times as many shells as Ukraine as of early October, down from eight times as many last winter, per the defense ministry-run Army Inform outlet.This came less than a month after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CNN that Russia's artillery advantage around Pokrovsk, a town in eastern Ukraine, had dropped from 12-to-1 to 2.5-to-1 after the start of Ukraine's surprise incursion into Kursk in August.According to military experts, these developments are likely due in part to Ukraine's recent long-range strikes on Russian ammunition depots."The recent strikes likely destroyed a significant amount of munitions and may have also damaged logistics systems used to support force groupings," said John Hardie, deputy director of the Russia Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.The targeted sites stored glide bombs, ballistic missiles, and artillery shells.

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