Units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, which are participating in the operation in the Kursk Oblast of the aggressor country of russia, allegedly faced a shortage of shells for artillery.
The British publication The Times writes about this with reference to the Ukrainian military.
The interlocutor of the publication, a serviceman with the call sign Prorok, who was wounded in the Kursk Oblast and was evacuated to the hospital, said that the Ukrainian artillery could not respond to the russian shelling.
It happened in the area of one of the settlements of the Kursk Oblast, located to the northwest of Sudzha, a town that is under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"Our artillery did not fire. We again faced a shortage of shells," the publication quotes the serviceman as saying.
Prorok said that he was wounded as a result of russian artillery fire. In addition to him, his friend with the call sign Zliuka was also injured.
Prorok and Zliuka were part of a grenade launcher platoon of eleven people. A few days ago, they accepted the surrender of the tank unit of the russians and tried to hold captured enemy positions.
According to Prorok, they managed to intercept the negotiations of the russians, in which they discussed the possibility of surrender.
"They were drunk and started fighting over what to do. And then they started shooting at each other," the serviceman said.
Already on Monday, August 26, Prorok’s unit allegedly came under enemy artillery fire.
Prorok was saved from serious injury or even death by a machine gun, where a fragment of a russian projectile landed. He received another shrapnel in his hand, which was the reason for the evacuation.
He added that due to lack of resources, he and his comrades allegedly had to crawl and hide to reach the evacuation point. At the same time, the help they requested over the walkie-talkie arrived only after 40 minutes.
"We ran, pretending that there were much more of us than there were. If the russian military had known how few of us there were, they would have advanced earlier," the publication quoted the serviceman as saying.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on August 27, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, said that since the beginning of the operation in the Kursk Oblast, the Ukrainian military managed to take control of 100 settlements.
We will remind, on August 28, the deputy director of the CIA, David Cohen, said that the russians are preparing to carry out a counteroffensive in the Kursk Oblast.
In addition, at the beginning of the month Forbes wrote that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are building fortifications in the part of the Kursk Oblast under their control.
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