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Nicholas Cecil

Munitions shortage hampering Putin’s army from making large scale offensives, says UK

Vladimir Putin whose war in Ukraine has cost the lives of tens of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians

(Picture: AP)

Vladimir Putin’s army is being hampered in making “large scale offensive ground operations” in Ukraine by a shortage of munitions, British defence chiefs said on Friday.

They stressed that the Russian military’s withdrawal from Kherson in the south of the country last month had hit its supply lines, further undermining getting equipment to the frontline.

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