Russia has no sufficient stock of artillery munitions for large-scale offensive in Ukraine - British intelligence

The Russian army is unlikely to have increased its own stockpile of artillery munitions enough to enable large-scale offensive operations in Ukraine.

This is stated in a British intelligence update published by the UK Ministry of Defense on Twitter Saturday, Ukrinform reports.

The review notes that since October, the Russian occupying forces have strengthened their contingent in Ukraine with tens of thousands of reservists, which allowed them to resolve the issue of an acute manpower shortage. However, the lack of ammunition remains a key limiting factor on their offensive efforts.

British intelligence believes that for the same reason, due to the limited availability of cruise missiles, Russia has likely limited long-range missile strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure to around once a week.

"A vulnerability of Russia's current operational design is that even just sustaining defensive operations along lengthy front line requires a significant daily expenditure of shells and rockets," the summary emphasizes.

As reported by Ukrinform, Ukrainian military intelligence intercepted a phone call of a Russian soldier, in which he says his comrades-in-arms mutilate themselves in order to be sent back home.