The battlefield has largely stabilized, and Ukraine can now afford to send some troops to train for more complicated operations using more complex weapons.
When the war began, pressure from Russia led Kyiv and its supporters to focus on weapons that were familiar to Ukrainian troops and could be used right away, such as Soviet-origin Mi-17 helicopters and T-72 tanks, or that would be easier to integrate, such as M113 armored personnel carriers, older air-defense systems, and low-tech drones.īut in late summer and the fall, Ukraine took the initiative, forcing Russian troops into retreat. Ukraine's requests for newer, more advanced Western-made tanks to replace its older, Soviet-era tanks - some of them older than the troops using them - are longstanding, but before the war, there were financial and logistical limits on the kinds of weapons Ukraine could acquire. Ukrainian troops inspect a destroyed Russian tank near Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region in December. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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