Originally Posted by Sky News

It has been widely rumoured that Moscow might be running out of missiles, despite launching 84 at major Ukrainian cities in one day on Monday.

Michael Clarke, security and defence analyst, says this is evident because Russia has "improvised" their use on several different occasions.

"We've seen missiles slamming into buildings which are sea-based missiles, they're anti-ship missiles carrying a half-tonne warhead against aircraft carriers," he told Sky News.
"We've seen surface to air missiles meant to be anti-aircraft missiles used against ground targets. And the Russians don't have that many, it seems, Kalibr, ship-launch cruise missiles – which they are using, they used a few yesterday.

"But, if they had more, I'm sure they would use more. The problem is that they seem to be running out of the components that they need for these things because they've been under sanctions for quite a long time."

Analysts have said Russia is increasingly reliant on foreign imports for weaponry, but it has relatively few international allies.

Ukraine said yesterday that Iranian-made drones were used in strikes.

Professor Clarke added that the war in Ukraine is the "return of industrial warfare to Europe".
"Whoever prevails in this struggle eventually will be who decides they can mobilise at an industrial capacity," he said.

"For Russia, it is their industrial capacity - for Ukraine, it is ours." - -