This was reported by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in a morning briefing on March 9.
According to preliminary information, the Russian Armed Forces have almost used up the entire stock of artillery ammunition stored in warehouses in central Russia. Therefore, ammunition is now being moved to the territory of the temporarily occupied part of Ukraine from warehouses located in other regions of Russia. This significantly increases the delivery time.
According to the General Staff, the condition and quality of new batches of ammunition is also unsatisfactory due to improper storage and violations of maintenance rules. Almost 50% of them show visible signs of rust damage.
"Given the intensity of hostilities and the existing unsatisfactory condition of ammunition, we should expect a shortage of ammunition in the artillery units of the Russian army over the next 2-3 months," the statement said.
The enemy continues to focus its main efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Vuhledar sectors.
Ukrainian troops repelled over 110 attacks in the last day.
The enemy continues to violate the norms of International Humanitarian Law, continues to carry out strikes, artillery shelling of civilian objects and civilian homes, and is trying to destroy the critical infrastructure of our country.
Over the previous day, March 8, the enemy carried out 25 air strikes, 2 missile strikes, and 32 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems.
No offensive groupings were detected at the Northern and Northeastern Ukrainian borders with Belarus and Russia.
At the same time, the enemy fired at the areas of 1 settlement in Chernihiv region; 2 settlements in Sumy region and 6 in Kharkiv region.
In the Kupiansk and Lyman sectors, Russia conducted unsuccessful offensives in the direction of 3 localities.
They shelled more than 15 localities with artillery. Among them - 5 settlements in Kharkiv region, 3 in Luhansk region, and 8 in Donetsk region.
In the Bakhmut sector, the Russian occupiers do not stop their assault actions in the direction of the Bakhmut city. Our defenders repelled the attacks in the vicinity of 5 localities.
More than 10 settlements in the Donetsk region came under enemy fire.
In the Avdiivka and Vuhleda sectors, the enemy made unsuccessful offensive actions in the direction of 7 localities in the Donetsk region.
The areas of 20 settlements in the Donetsk region came under enemy fire.
In the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions, the enemy is defending itself.
Over 30 localities came under fire. In particular, these are 3 settlements in Donetsk region, 14 in Zaporizhzhia, and 15 in Kherson region.
Over the past day, the aviation of the Defense Forces conducted 11 strikes on the areas of concentration of occupiers' personnel and military equipment and struck at the position of the enemy's anti-aircraft missile system.
Rocket and artillery men hit 2 areas of concentration of personnel and inflicted fire on the command post of one of the Russian army units.
During the massive attack on March 9, the Russian Federation launched 81 missiles of various types, the defenders shot down 34 cruise missiles and 8 guided aircraft, including 4 UAVs.