2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Although I personally find it hard to believe that Russia, out of all nations, is running low on Soviet artillery shells, but that's the most recent rumour coming from US intelligence agencies and they've been pretty spot-on so far.

I can't see how, as even despite all of the heavy shelling, going by Russian or Western sources, they can't have exceeded firing much more than a million, perhaps two million, shells tops. That's sounds like a lot, but for attritional trench warfare it really isn't. Heck, a million shells were fired before most large offensives in WW1 from 1916 onwards.

So the Russians are simply buying from them to keep up a stable supply as demand eats into reserves and production, or Private Conscriptovych has been a very naughty boy indeed and has somehow rendered a surplus of millions upon millions of shells unusable.

Either way, it has given us this rather lovely comment from the Ukranian Ministry of Defence.