By Natali Moss
"The gap in the shots on the front between Ukraine and Russia decreased from 1: 7 to 1: 3," said the unnamed interlocutor of journalists. In 2023, the War Zone Military Viewer Stetson Pay reported that Ukrainian artillerymen "playing long" for the future. He noted that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation could not neither suppress the calculations of defense forces, nor competing for firing.
During the press conference in February 2024, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that at the end of 2023 the advantage of occupiers in artillery was 1:12. As of February, it decreased to 1: 7. "We need to come again when we had counter -offensive actions, where we went 1 to 1. 5, 1 to 3. Then we will be able to push the Russians," the Ukrainian leader assured.
In April, Ukrainian artilleryman Vladislav Smeminsky complained in a comment to the New York Times that due to delayed assistance from the United States, the military faced a tangible shortage of artillery ammunition. However, the advantage, according to analysts, was already 1: 5 at that time. In June, in a comment to the Washington Post, the first deputy head of the Ministry of Defense Ivan Havrylyuk confirmed the advantage of the Armed Forces in artillery. "We are already seeing results.
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