Ammunition left behind by fleeing Russian troops is filling Ukraine’s depleted reserves and powering its counter-offensive, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Russia’s hurried retreat from Kharkiv in early September saw soldiers abandoning a mass of hardware, including tanks, other armored vehicles and howitzers.
They also left behind huge quantities of Soviet-caliber artillery shells, the paper reported.
“The Russians no longer have a firepower advantage,” one unnamed artillery officer told the paper.
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“We smashed up all their artillery units before launching the offensive, and then we started to move ahead so fast that they didn’t even have time to fuel up and load their tanks. They just fled and left everything behind.”
That equipment is being turned on Russian forces as Ukraine advances beyond the recently recaptured city of Lyman in the Donbas region, the WSJ reported.
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