Opinion by David Ignatius: As the fight shifts east, there is a race against time to arm Ukraine
Hoping to reverse Russia’s poor showing in Round 1, President Vladimir Putin and his generals are reverting to the traditional Russian tactic of concentrating immense firepower in a limited theater of battle, and then pounding the enemy. This approach will be easier in the East, where the flat ground will enable the advancing army, and Ukrainian hit-and-run tactics are more difficult to execute.
German and other Axis forces in what the Russians called “Operation Uranus,” which proved to be the decisive battle on the Eastern front.kesselschlacht, To help Ukraine combat this blitzkrieg, U.S. commanders have been racing to move weapons and ammunition into Ukraine. The Americans are working with NATO allies to send artillery, howitzers, rockets, antiaircraft and anti-artillery radars and missiles, antiship missiles, and tanks — in addition to the Javelin antitank weapons and Stinger antiaircraft missiles that proved so useful in Round 1.last week, valued at about $800 million, bringing total U.S.
As the United States and its NATO allies deliver weapons to Ukraine, they are observing some tacit “red lines,” to avoid prompting Russian escalation. The United States is refraining from supplying Kyiv with offensive, long-range ballistic missiles that could strike Moscow, for example.last week that sending the “most sensitive” weapons could bring “unpredictable consequences.” U.S.
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