In the US are not sure that cassette ammunition will instantly change the course of war - nyt

According to a senior researcher at the Royal Institute of Joint Services in London, who has visited Ukraine several times, the scale of effect for the Ukrainian side will not be huge. "This will make Ukrainian artillery a little more deadly. The real influence is felt later this year, when Ukraine will have much more ammunition than it would be different," the NYT interlocutor said.

The publication reports that in recent weeks, US officials in private conversations have said that they are disappointed with the circumstances of cases in the Ukrainian army. According to the New York Time interlocutors, some commanders, because of dissatisfaction with the slow pace of counter -offensive and fears about losses in their ranks, "returned to the old habits - decades of Soviet artillery shelling - instead of maintaining Western tactics and pressing more .

Answering the questions of American journalists about such criticism, former Minister of Defense of Ukraine Andriy Zagorodniuk said: "Why not come and do it themselves?" The Pentagon believes that the decision to transfer to Ukraine cassette ammunition gives troops more time to check the weaknesses of Russian defense and allows to do what it is able to produce thousands of artillery shells a day to demand the occupiers.

Therefore, it is too early to judge the results of the Armed Forces counter -offensive. And perhaps cassette ammunition will allow Ukraine to withstand an artillery battle in the near future. "This is slower than we hoped, but the Ukrainians have a lot of combat capacity," said the Deputy Minister of Defense for Political Issues of Calus Calus, adding that the bulk of nine Ukrainian brigades studied in the West have not yet been put into battle, and They are kept in the reserve.