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Zelenskyy advisor says slow Western weapon deliveries put Ukraine 6 to 9 months behind in its fight back against Russia
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A top advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the country’s military efforts against Russia are six to nine months behind schedule because of delays in Western weapons deliveries in the fall of 2022.
“If Ukraine had received weapons faster, we could have defended ourselves better and launched a counterattack,” Mykhailo Podolyak told Ukrainian Channel 24 news outlet, per the Kyiv Post.
Weapon deliveries to Ukraine were delayed by three to four months due to the logistics and approvals of Western nations, Podolyak said, which “seriously” hampered its defense capability.
Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, made similar comments to Ukrainska Pravda earlier this week, saying that Ukraine’s counteroffensive is “out of schedule,” but he didn’t give specific reasons for it.
Christoph Trebesch, the head of the team that created the tracker, said the gap “between promised and delivered military aid is wide.”
While Ukrainian troops have made slow gains since May, they have so far failed to achieve any significant breakthroughs against Russia’s heavily fortified defensive lines, per the Institute for the Study of War.
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