Slightly less than half of the artillery shells supplied by the United States to Ukraine come from warehouses in Israel and South Korea.. This was told to The New York Times by a senior American official..

APU monthly use about 90 thousand shells. This is about twice the volume of their production in the States and in Europe.. Therefore, the United States turned to Israel with a request to transfer shells from American warehouses located in the country.

Jerusalem is concerned about this position of the United States. Despite this, they nevertheless agreed to provide Kyiv with about 300 thousand 155-mm shells.. The main reason is that the ammunition is US property.. At the same time, Israel continues to comply with the policy of not providing Ukraine with lethal weapons..

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Also, last year, the United States turned to South Korea with a request for the supply of ammunition.. The local officials were more open than the Israelis.. But for a number of reasons, they refused to send shells directly to Ukraine..

The fact is that the government did not want ammunition marked R. K (Republic of Korea) appeared at our front, because it violates the South Korean rules for the export of weapons. The parties decided that these shells would be sent to replenish American stocks in other places..