Two-thirds of NATO countries have exhausted their stockpiles of weapons for Ukraine.

For some of them, restocking turned out to be a difficult process.

This is reported by the New York Times.

20 out of 30 NATO countries have exhausted their stockpiles of weapons for Ukraine.

The remaining 10 countries can provide more.

According to one of the high-ranking NATO officials, 10 countries, including Italy, Germany, France and the Netherlands, can transfer weapons to Ukraine.

In total, since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, NATO has already transferred weapons worth $40 billion to Ukraine, which is the annual defense budget of France.

However.

as it turned out, the west was unprepared for the rate at which both sides were losing their weapons stockpiles.

According to the newspaper, the pace of artillery duels is most impressive.

In the summer, the Armed Forces of Ukraine spent 6-7 thousand artillery shells during the day, and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - about 40-50 thousand. 

"A day in Ukraine is a month or more in Afghanistan," defense expert and former NATO Assistant Secretary General Camille Grand told the NYT.

We will remind that NATO troops conduct training near the borders of Belarus and Russia.

Two thousand servicemen of the Alliance took part in the Tumak 22 exercise in northern Poland.

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