The commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Serhiy Naev, believes that Russia’s war against Ukraine may again go beyond the borders of the east and south of the country, especially if Russia continues to increase the production of weapons and improve existing technologies. with help to its allies or if Ukraine’s allies reduce the amount of aid they provide to Kyiv, it said Ukrainian Pravda.

“We understand that there is now a war for resources. The Russian Federation gets its resources with the help of the “Axis of Evil” – this is North Korea, this is Iran. And we, with the help of our partners, receive air defense equipment from them, and oppose them with the resources of the Russian Federation. We must understand that the reduction of aid will really hit our defense capability. But we will fight with what is,” Nayev said in an interview with ABC News.

Nayev warned that if Russia continues to increase its weapons production and improve its technology with the help of its allies, the war could once again spread beyond the borders of eastern and southern Ukraine.

“We are preparing for it,” he said. “We are building defenses, laying mines and training our forces.”

ABC News reported that the Air Force and Defense Service of Ukraine estimates that Russia has launched more than 800 drones over Ukraine in the past two months, “keeping about 870 cruise and ballistic missiles for large-scale attacks on the country’s infrastructure and energy.” .

It is reported that the US has reduced the supply of shells by 30% since the beginning of the war in Gaza

Earlier this week, ABC News reported, citing a Ukrainian official, that the U.S. has cut supplies of NATO-standard ammunition to Ukraine by 30 percent since Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza began last month, Ukrainian Pravda reported. In this context

Hopes that Ukraine’s European allies would be able to fill the projectile gap also proved overly optimistic, as Bloomberg reported on November 10 that the EU’s commitment to supply Ukraine with one million projectiles by March 2024 was fully met.

At the same time, Russia has dramatically increased its military budget for 2024 and has reportedly received more than a million missiles from North Korea.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Friday that Ukraine must achieve three key “victories” abroad, including the approval of major aid packages from the US Congress and the European Union and the official start of negotiations on joining the European bloc, Reuters reported.

Twenty months after Russia’s full-scale invasion, fatigue has crept into the West’s relationship with Kiev, which relies heavily on the military, economic and humanitarian aid of its allies to fight the Kremlin’s forces.

“We need three victories. The first is a victory with the US Congress. It’s a challenge, it’s not easy, but Ukraine is doing everything,” Zelenskyy said at a press conference in Kyiv.