The United Kingdom (UK) is running ‘dangerously low’ on weapons and ammunition as a result of the war in Ukraine and the nation’s lackadaisical efforts to replace them, argues the former British Secretary of Defence and Secretary General of NATO, Lord Robertson.
“If you talk to senior military people, even those in office at the moment, some will be quite categoric that [Britain is] running dangerously low on stocks of ammunition,” stated Lord Robertson, who defended British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace’s “We’re not Amazon,” rebuke after Ukraine’s President Zelensky drew up a wishlist of all the weaponry he wanted from the UK.
Lord Robertson went on to express his concern that Britain was giving munitions to Ukraine much faster than it was replacing them in comparison to Russia, which “is working its factories round the clock in order to reconstitute what it can.”
“We don’t seem to be doing it at the same pace as we are giving the arms away. I am concerned and so indeed are the military. They are gravely concerned that we may be prejudicing our own defence, by not refreshing the stocks that we have,” he adds.
The UK is not alone in seeing its munitions stocks dissipate. The Biden administration admitted it’s sending controversial cluster bombs to Ukraine because the United States and the West are running out of supplies.
