There are a number of reasons why Ukraine is beginning to run short of its most critical resource in the war, the last of which has to do with American partisan party politics and a different major conflict drawing ammunition supplies away from Kyiv. It’s been nearly two years since Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and it’s only now that the country could be facing its worst problem since Russian troops began pouring over the border: Ukraine is running low on artillery shells. Moreover, the war unfolding in the Middle East redirected at least some of the American 155mm artillery shell stocks that were meant for Ukraine according to an October report from Axios that cited three Israeli defense officials close to the situation. Do Ukrainians matter as the Israelites to the west ?

