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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor

Military supplies depleted on both sides but Russia retains advantage

Anti-tank weapon in Donetsk
A still image from a handout video made available by the Russian defence ministry of an anti-tank weapon seized in Donetsk. Photograph: EPA

It has been a month since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, and such has been the intensity of the first phase of the fighting that both sides in the conflict have increasingly depleted their stocks of ammunition and other military supplies.

But while Ukraine is willing to claim that the Russian invaders have only three days of supplies left, while warning that its own troops are running out of anti-tank and anti-aircraft systems, the reality is hard to measure.

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