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of the purchased components. The head of the company, Michal Strnad, clarified that about 50% of the parts purchased in African and Asian countries were of insufficient quality for immediate transfer to Ukraine, as they needed maintenance. Missing components produced in Ukraine had to be added to some of these shells. At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic reported that within the framework of the Czech initiative, the Ukrainian army will receive from 50,000 to 100,000 large-caliber projectiles every month.
The US will supply Ukraine with more large-caliber ammunition: a new plant with a capacity of 30,000 shells per month was opened in Texas. Texas has opened a new factory to produce 155 mm artillery shells, reports the NYT. As noted, the enterprise will produce about 30,000 shells every month. The opening of the new General Dynamics plant in the city of Mesquite cost more than $500M. The plant includes advanced production technologies and automation for producing large-caliber metal parts. When the plant reaches full capacity, it will employ about 350 people. The NYT edition recalled that the US Department of Defense aimed to produce 100,000 shells per month by the end of 2025. The plants in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, make about 36,000 shells per month. The Pentagon noted that the US has provided Kyiv with more than 3 million 155mm shells since the start of the full-scale war.
2.11 Polls & Sociology
New polling shows significant Ukrainian support for diplomacy to end the war. Recent surveys—including a new poll from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace— suggest that the share of Ukrainians open to a negotiated settlement has dramatically risen over the past year and, if present trends hold, is well on the way to becoming a majority-held view.
Polls from the earliest days of the war showing nearly unanimous Ukrainian support for the government and its handling of the war effort. This seeming consensus has steadily eroded since the peak of Ukraine’s battlefield successes in 2022, when 70 percent of survey respondents affirmed that Ukraine “should continue fighting until it wins the war.” That number dropped to 60 percent in the summer of 2023, according to Gallup. Polling since the failure of Ukraine’s 2023 offensive shows that 44 percent of Ukrainians favor entering into talks with Russia and only 48 percent—still a plurality but, notably, no longer a majority—believe Ukraine should fight on.
Other recent polling shows that even in Kyiv, where Ukraine’s elite and bureaucracy is concentrated and political investment in the war effort is at its highest, complete confidence in Ukrainian victory is weakening, says analyst Mark Episkopos.
70% of Ukrainians believe Zelenskyy should stay in office until end of martial law says KIIS. 22% of respondents disagreed with this statement. The percentage of respondents who agreed varies between 65% and 74% depending on the oblast where they live, meaning that the vast majority of Ukrainians do not question the president’s legitimacy, sociologists say. More than half of Ukrainians approve of the leader's performance in office. The majority of Ukrainians (58%) also agree that the Ukrainian government should not compromise in negotiations.
33% of Ukrainians think Ukraine moving in 'right direction,' 47% disagree, survey shows. A recent survey by the Razumkov Center, published on June 26, indicates that 33% of Ukrainians believe the country is moving "in the right direction," while 47% feel it is heading "in the wrong direction."
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