MOSCOW, 8 Mar. The West has accelerated arms and military equipment shipments to Ukraine as Kiev prepares for a counteroffensive, The Economist reported. takes place approximately once a month at the large American Ramstein Air Base in Germany. <…> Accordingly, the flow of weapons has turned from a stream into a river,» the article says. that a protracted conflict is not in the interests of the West, so the flow of weapons to Ukraine has increased dramatically. Since December 9, in three months, the country has received 40 percent of all military aid promised by the Pentagon since the beginning of the conflict.
As the publication points out, although most of the Ukrainian army uses Soviet equipment and weapons, soon a third of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be armed according to NATO standards.
The lack of ammunition remains a serious problem, since the Western allies are in no hurry to increase their production. And Ukraine's lack of air power could become a bigger problem if Russian warplanes are willing to take more risks in any Ukrainian offensive.