Ukraine’s defence minister says half of Western military aid has been delayed, which is costing lives and territory.
“At the moment, commitment does not constitute delivery,” Rustam Umerov said in a televised address on Sunday.
Ukraine is currently experiencing a variety of setbacks in its mission to drive Russia from its territory.
Mr Umerov said that the lack of supplies put Ukraine at a further disadvantage “in the mathematics of war”.
“We do everything possible and impossible but without timely supply it harms us,” he said.
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius warned in November that plans to deliver a million artillery shells by March would not be met.
In January, the European Union (EU) said just over half of these would reach Ukraine by the deadline and that the full promised amount would not be there until the end of 2024.
The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, blamed a lack of production capacity but Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said allies had been stepping this up.
Ukrainian forces have often complained of shortages in their war with Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said one of the reasons Ukraine’s highly anticipated counter-offensive did not start earlier last year was the lack of weapons.
That counter-offensive largely failed – one of a number of setbacks Kyiv has faced after some early successes in repelling Russia after it invaded in February 2022.
