A steady supply of Western military equipment could enable Ukraine to surpass Russian military stockpiles as the war unfolds, thus neutralizing a key advantage for the Kremlin and establishing a substantial military buffer between NATO and Russia.
about $160 million of military aid to Ukraine while brokering arms sales to Ukraine worth millions more. That assistance included heavy weapons that Czech officials rushed into Ukraine at a time when President Joe Biden’s team was still debating how to balance Ukraine’s requests for artillery against the fear of Russian retaliation, giving Prague an outsize battlefield impact.
“There's some indication that the administration understands that they should be starting now to arm the Ukrainians for the intermediate time for the long, long term, but in the next, say three to five [years],” former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor said. “I think it’s emerging as a policy.” “Increasingly, you’re seeing NATO standard systems going to Ukraine to deal with the ongoing Russian aggression,” Secretary of Statereporters Friday. “I think going forward, what Ukraine wants and needs is a strong defensive and deterrence system that makes it less likely in the future that Russia will act aggressively toward Ukraine and that if it does nonetheless do that, Ukraine is very well prepared.
The list of beneficiaries includes not only NATO allies such as Poland and the Baltic states but also countries such as Ukraine and“I think that it is, again, trying to separate out the immediate war-fighting from the long term,” former Ambassador Kurt Volker, who represented the U.S. at NATO and worked as special envoy for Ukraine during Donald Trump’s presidency, told the.
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