Small NATO member states have exhausted their potential to provide military support to Ukraine, with 20 out of the alliance's thirty members being "extremely strained" from military aid. The New York Times reported that the remaining ten NATO members, including France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, can still increase their supply of weapons, but their capacities are highly strained. The article noted that Western countries are doing their utmost to find more weapons and ammunition that Ukraine can use now, including samples of equipment such as Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems, T-72 tanks, and Soviet-caliber artillery shells. Politico stated that the stockpiles of heavy weaponry ammunition provided by NATO countries to Ukraine have already been depleted from remaining storage facilities. The newspaper emphasized that the main reason for the emerging shortage is the enormous consumption of ammunition by the Ukrainian army.