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'Trying to save ammunition': Donetsk tank commander describes challenge / 33BP23V
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A Ukrainian tank platoon leader in Donetsk describes the need to conserve T-64 fired ammunition, saying that the results of the year-long conflict will depend on how quickly weapons are supplied to troops.
"We are trying to save ammunition as much as we can in case of a breakthrough. We simply cannot destroy all targets we detect," says
the commander who goes under the callsign Lisovyk.
European Union foreign ministers agreed on 20 March 2023 on a two-billion-euro plan to raid their own arsenals and jointly purchase desperately needed artillery shells for Ukraine, following complaints by Kyiv that its forces are having to ration firepower as Russia's invasion has turned into a grinding war of attrition. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES