Accuse Mayor Vital, Klitschko Says
Another Round Of Overnight Airstrikes
Has Caused Heating And Power Outages
In And Around The Ukrainian Capital As
Russia Promised There Was No Let-up In
The Attacks Of The New Year Holiday
Weekend With Little Change On The
Battlefields As Russia's Wore Near The
One-Year Mark Ukraine Is Hoping
Weapons Deliveries Will Help Turn The
The Tide In 2023 But So Far Key Western
Suppliers Have Been Holding Back With
Some Of Their High-tech Equipment That
Kyiv Wants Most
As The War Drags On, The Ukrainian
Weapon Stocks Are Running Down Kyiv Has
Repeatedly Called For The West To Help
Apart From The Energy Aid Of the Course
Ukraine Still Needs More Weapons And
Ammunition Because The Best Way To
Protect Our Civilians From Russian
Terror Is To Defeat Russia
Can Germany Send More Military Hardware
From The Start Of Olaf, Schultz's Answer Has
Been Consistent
So Far, Germany Has Delivered Around 2
A Billion Euros Worth Of Military
Equipment That's Only A Tenth Of The
The Amount Committed By The United States
But It Is The Largest Eu Contribution
Among The Arms Sent By Berlin Iris T
Long-range Air Defense Systems Whose
Value Has Increased Given Russia's
Concentration On Airstrikes
Has Also Sent Key Battlefield Weapons
Like Mars 2 Rocket Launchers
And Panzer Helbitz, A 2000 Self-propelled
Howitzers
In Both Cases, A Lack Of Spare Parts Has
Caused Delays When Those Systems Needed
Repair, But They Have Been Effective And
More Have Been Promised
What Ukraine Really Wants Though Is
State-of-the-art Heavy Tanks Like The
Leopard, Too They Say, Would Help
Win The Ground War
The German Government Has So Far Refused
Pointing Out That Other NATO, Countries
Have Also Not Provided The Most Modern
Tanks Instead Berlin Has Delivered
Leopards To NATO, Allies Like These
Supplied To Check Forces In December
Part Of An Exchange Deal Under Which The
Checks Sent To Soviet-designed T-72 Tanks
In Ukraine, Evidence According To The
Chancellor That Germany Is Doing Its Bit
Foreign
Patriot Air Defense Systems, Some Of Its
Most Advanced Weapons
The German Government Has Offered Its
Patriots To NATO, Member Poland But, So
Far Says It Cannot Spare Any For
Deployment In Ukraine
Meanwhile, Kyiv Continues To Ask The West
For More Of Those Powerful Weapons Much
Of What It Has Seems Unlikely To Make,
The Decisive Difference In This War
We Can Take A Closer Look At This With
Mike Martin, Who's A War Studies Senior
Fellow At King's College In London And
Welcome Back To This War Is
Consuming An Enormous Amount Of
Munitions And Spare Parts As We Heard Is
There Is A Danger That Supplies Could Run Out
I Think It's Important To Consider That
All Wars Eventually Become Economic If
They Go On Long Enough And We're
Seeing It Not Just On The Ukrainian
Slash Western Side, But Also On The
Russian Side, Both Sides For Different
Reasons Are Running Out Of Uh Particular
Weapons It Takes A Long Time To Get A
The Munition Of A Shell From A Factory To The
Front Line And That's What's Proving
Difficult
And We Heard In The Report That
Germany's Contribution Is Europe's
Biggest But Only A Tenth Of That Of The
US, Are There Countries That Could Be
Doing More
Uh, There Are Countries That Could Be
Doing More, It Is The Problem Is That Uh
What's Happened Until Now Is That
Western Countries Have Used Up Their Own
Stocks That They Keep If They Ever End
Up In A War Uh Probably Because They
Thought The War Might Be Over In Six
Months Or A Shorter Period Of Time Now
It's Very Clear That The War Is Going To
Go On Well Into 2023 And In Order To Get
The Factories Produce More Munitions
The Governments Have To Sign Contracts
With Those Factories, So They Can Ramp Up
Production And That's What's Been
Happening Over The Last Six Weeks Or So
Um, So Rather Than It Being A Question Of
Particular Countries Doing More I Think
We Could All Do More Britain, The US
France Germany Etc, But It's Actually
Quite An Administrative Question Of
Actually Sitting Down And Signing The
Paperwork So The Factories Can Ramp Up
Production And What's Happening On The
Russian Side In Terms Of Munition Supply
Yeah, They Have
Um, A Similar Problem With The Weapon
Shortages, But It's A Bit Different So
Their Problem Is That Because They've
Been Under Sanctions Very Heavy
Sanctions Since The Last February, But Also
Since 2014 They're Short Of Specific
Components So Microchip Gyroscopes
Sensors All That Kind Of Stuff So That's
Meant That They Haven't Been Able To
Produce Higher-tech Weapons Like Guided
Missiles And So They've Had To Go To
North Korea Iran Those Sorts Of
Countries Get Quite Low Technology
Weapons Are So Much Cheaper To Throw Away Like
These Suicide Drones That We've Been
Seeing, But That Masks The Fact That
They've Almost Completely Run Out Of The
Ability To Produce High-tech Munitions
Right And As We Have More Than 300 Days
Into This War, Just Give Us A Global Uh
Overview Of How Things Stand
So Uh Since Really May The Ukrainian
Have Had Momentum On Their Side, They've
Been Setting The Pace Of The War And As
We've Seen They've Been Three Major
Russian Pullouts Of Areas That They've
Previously Held At The Moment Of The War
The Fronts Three Fronts You Want To
Look At Criminals In The Northeast
Uh In The Center East And Baptista In
The South Very Briefly Criminal The
Ukrainian Have Made Some Small Advances
In The Last Couple Of Weeks In Beirut
The Russians Have Made Some Small
Advances At Terrible Costs To Lives
In The Last Month Or So In The South
Baptista, That's The Big Question Mark
Because That's The Most Obvious Place
For A Ukrainian Offensive In 2023 And So
Both Sides Are Reinforcing There And
Waiting To See What The Others Are Going To
Thank You So Much For That's Very
Clear Our Defense Analyst Mike Martin
Thank You
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