Western military powers are running out of ammunition to give Ukraine to defend itself against Russia’s full-scale invasion, the UK and NATO have warned, writes BBC.

Adam Rob Bauer, NATO’s most senior military official, told the Warsaw Security Forum that “the bottom of the barrel is now visible”.

He said governments and defence manufacturers now had to “ramp up production in a much higher tempo”.

Ukraine fires thousands of shells every day and most now come from NATO.

The admiral, who chairs NATO’s Military Committee, said decades of underinvestment meant NATO countries had begun supplying Ukraine with weapons with their ammunition warehouse already half-full or even emptier.

“We need large volumes. The just-in-time, just-enough economy we built together in 30 years in our liberal economies is fine for a lot of things - but not the armed forces when there is a war ongoing”.