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WASHINGTON \u2014 Western weaponry pouring into Ukraine<\/a> helped blunt Russia\u2019s initial offensive<\/a> and seems certain to play a central role in the approaching, potentially decisive, battle for Ukraine\u2019s contested Donbas region<\/a>. Yet the Russian military is making little headway halting what has become a historic arms express.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. numbers alone are mounting: more than 12,000 weapons designed to defeat armored vehicles, some 1,400 shoulder-fired Stinger missiles to shoot down aircraft and more than 50 million rounds of ammunition, among many other things. Dozens of other nations are adding to the totals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden administration is preparing yet another, more diverse, package of military support possibly totaling $750 million to be announced in the coming days, a senior U.S. defense official said Tuesday. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss plans not yet publicly announced. The additional aid is a sign that the administration intends to continue expanding its support for Ukraine\u2019s war effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These armaments have helped an under-gunned Ukrainian military defy predictions that it would be quickly overrun by Russia. They explain in part why Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s army<\/a> gave up, at least for now, its attempt to capture Kyiv<\/a>, the capital, and has narrowed its focus to battling for eastern and southern Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE – In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, pallets of ammunition, weapons and other equipment bound for Ukraine are loaded on a plane by members from the 436th Aerial Port Squadron during a foreign military sales mission at Dover Air Force Base, Del., on Jan. 30, 2022. Western weaponry pouring into Ukraine helped blunt Russia’s initial offensive and seems certain to play a central role in the approaching battle for Ukraine’s contested Donbas region. Yet the Russian military is making little headway halting what has become a historic arms express. (Senior Airman Stephani Barge\/U.S. Air Force via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

U.S. officials and analysts offer numerous explanations for why the Russians have had so little success interdicting Western arms moving overland from neighboring countries, including Poland. Among the likely reasons: Russia\u2019s failure to win full control of Ukraine\u2019s skies has limited its use of air power. Also, the Russians have struggled to deliver weapons and supplies to their own troops in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some say Moscow\u2019s problem begins at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe short answer to the question is that they are an epically incompetent army badly led from the very top,\u201d said James Stavridis, a retired U.S. Navy admiral who was the top NATO commander in Europe from 2009 to 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russians also face practical obstacles. Robert G. Bell, a longtime NATO official and now a professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech University, said the shipments lend themselves to being hidden or disguised in ways that can make them elusive to the Russians \u2014 \u201cshort of having a network of espionage on the scene\u201d to pinpoint the convoys\u2019 movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not as easy to stop this assistance flow as it might seem,\u201d said Stephen Biddle, a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University. \u201cThings like ammunition and shoulder-fired missiles can be transported in trucks that look just like any other commercial truck. And the trucks carrying the munitions the Russians want to interdict are just a small part of a much larger flow of goods and commerce moving around in Poland and Ukraine and across the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo the Russians have to find the needle in this very big haystack to destroy the weapons and ammo they\u2019re after and not waste scarce munitions on trucks full of printer paper or baby diapers or who knows what.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE – Ukrainian servicemen study a Sweden shoulder-launched weapon system Carl Gustaf M4 during a training session on the near Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 7, 2022. Western weaponry pouring into Ukraine helped blunt Russia’s initial offensive and seems certain to play a central role in the approaching battle for Ukraine’s contested Donbas region. Yet the Russian military is making little headway halting what has become a historic arms express. (AP Photo\/Andrew Marienko, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Even with this Western assistance it\u2019s uncertain whether Ukraine will ultimately prevail against a bigger Russian force. The Biden administration has drawn the line at committing U.S. troops to the fight. It has opted instead to orchestrate international condemnation and economic sanctions<\/a>, provide intelligence information, bolster NATO\u2019s eastern flank to deter a wider war with Russia and donate weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In mid-March, a Russian deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, said arms shipments would be targeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe warned the United States that pumping weapons into Ukraine from a number of countries as it has orchestrated isn\u2019t just a dangerous move but an action that turns the respective convoys into legitimate targets,\u201d he said in televised remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But thus far the Russians appear not to have put a high priority on arms interdiction, perhaps because their air force is leery of flying into Ukraine\u2019s air defenses to search out and attack supply convoys on the move. They have struck fixed sites like arms depots and fuel storage locations, but to limited effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, the Russians said they destroyed four S-300 surface-to-air missile launchers that had been given to Ukraine by an unspecified European country. Slovakia, a NATO member that shares a border with Ukraine, donated just such a system last week but denied it had been destroyed. On Tuesday, the Russian Ministry of Defense said long-range missiles were used to hit two Ukrainian ammo depots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE – A Ukrainian serviceman fires an NLAW anti-tank weapon during an exercise in the Joint Forces Operation, in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on Feb. 15, 2022. Western weaponry pouring into Ukraine helped blunt Russia’s initial offensive and seems certain to play a central role in the approaching battle for Ukraine’s contested Donbas region. Yet the Russian military is making little headway halting what has become a historic arms express. (AP Photo\/Vadim Ghirda, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As the fighting intensifies in the Donbas and perhaps along the coastal corridor to the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula, Putin may feel compelled to strike harder at the arms pipeline, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called vital to his nation\u2019s survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, a staggering volume and range of war materiel is arriving almost daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe scope and speed of our support to meeting Ukraine\u2019s defense needs are unprecedented in modern times,\u201d said John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary. He said the approximately $2.5 billion in weapons and other material that has been offered to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration is equivalent to more than half of Ukraine\u2019s normal defense budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One example: The Pentagon says it has provided more than 5,000 Javelin missiles, which are among the world\u2019s most effective weapons against tanks and other armored vehicles \u2014 and can even take down a low-flying helicopter. The missile, shaped like a clunky dumb bell and weighing 50 pounds (23 kilograms), is fired by an individual soldier; from its launch tube it flies up at a steep angle and descends directly onto its target in what its known as a curveball shot \u2014 hitting the top of a tank where its armor is weakest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The specific routes used to move the U.S. and other Western materials into Ukraine are secret for security reasons, but the basic process is not. Just this week, two U.S. military cargo planes arrived in Eastern Europe with items ranging from machine guns and small arms ammunition to body armor and grenades, the Pentagon said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A similar load is due later this week to complete delivery of $800 million in assistance approved by President Joe Biden just one month ago. The weapons and equipment are offloaded, moved onto trucks and driven into Ukraine by Ukrainian soldiers for delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirby said the material sometimes reaches troops in the field within 48 hours of entering Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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