Unlike Russia with no stockpiles of weapons. Moscow’s army finds itself effectively embroiled in what should become “Blitz” to capture Kiev in a matter of days and replace President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with a trusted Kremlin man, instead the Russian military has been fighting in Donbass after 13 months since the outbreak of the war Civil war partially under control in 2014.
However, despite the international sanctions which are putting the Russian economy to a very severe test and which over the months will have an increasingly destructive impact, especially on some key sectors, at least Ukraine’s western partners are currently suffering war effort.
The boss says it bluntly of the Defense Staff, Giuseppe Cavo DragoneIn Hearing before the Senate Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee. “The support for Ukraine created problems for everyone: when I met in the various forums with allied nations or with those who are part of the Contact Group for Ukraine with others, they were all very involved and Concerned about destockingwhich has not fallen below the alert level, but all we are approaching that limit and we realized that we do not have adequate support in these cases,” Cavo Dragone explained during the hearing.
According to the Chief of Defense Staff, the issue of timing for arms procurement “will also have to be addressed at European Union level.” “We have lived the last twenty years – explained Cavo Dragone – thinking about the fight against terrorism, asymmetric wars and peacekeeping, but such massive activity as manifested in the Ukrainian-Russian theater was not among the priorities. We cannot afford to reserve weapons, ammunition or missile systems in twenty monthsbecause in twenty months we won’t know who the good guys and the bad guys are.”
A problem that the Secretary of Defense actually raised a few months ago, Guido Crosettowith the aim of reinvigorating the goal of achieving spending Italian military 2% of GDPas required by NATO to “replenish supplies needed for national defence”.
Just three days ago, Ansa recalls, the European Union adopted a proposal for a European ammunition plan to help Kiev and replenish member states’ stockpiles. But the agreement is only political for now, and the only goal written in black and white is to deliver one million rounds of ammunition to Kiev within a year. The However, the emptying of armies’ hangars is not the only consequence of the conflict. “After the war broke out, there was one Tsunami on the much-discussed European defensea remarkable acceleration. All the chiefs of staff of the Union Armed Forces have said that there is a need and it seems that we should meet it soon. I am not saying that the militarization will already be revealed, but the first step will be to operationalize – Cavo Dragone announced this again in the Senate commission – the command and control structure of the hypothetical European Union defense instrument. This is only the first step, but it is the skeleton around which to build all the branches, specializations and needs that must be respected to have a European army.