Ukraine has received probably a dozen or so battalions of artillery from the us. And others, half on rounds of ammunition over 200 tanks. The worry is that ukraine may not use these in the way that they were designed to be used. They may be sucked into russia's trap of attritional slug fest using massive amounts of ammunition too quickly. Western countries feel they actually don't have all that much of a good sense of ukraine's strategy and intentions.
Russia is making steady, piecemeal gains in the region; Ukrainian forces are simply
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