ODESA, Ukraine — New shipments of U.S. ammunition have begun to flow into Ukraine after a political dispute led to months of painful shortages, but Ukrainian forces still feel a “hunger” for ammunition and have misgivings about the quality of American support.

“Part of it has arrived, but the thing is that the U.S. does not really understand how much artillery shells we need on our front line,” Mamuka Mamulashvili, commander of the Georgian Legion in Ukraine, told the Washington Examiner on the sidelines of the Black Sea Security Forum. “We are using the artillery shells that are given to us a lot faster than they think we could use them. So, [there is] so-called artillery hunger, and we’re having the problems because of that, because when we don’t have enough ammunition to shoot, more professionals are dying, and we are getting weaker.”