Are Ukraine Commanders Becoming More Desperate?

Ukrainian servicemen unpack Javelin anti-tank missiles from the United States on Feb. 11. Over the past two weeks, the Biden administration began shipping more weaponry to Ukraine. | Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo  

Politico: Heavy weaponry pours into Ukraine as commanders become more desperate 

Russian forces are attempting a pincer movement on Ukrainian forces in the Donbas. Will Western artillery, tanks and drones get there in time? 

Western countries are rushing heavy weaponry to Ukraine as the war enters what promises to be a deadly, and potentially protracted, new phase. 

Those deliveries are coming amid increasingly desperate pleas from Ukrainian battlefield commanders as they endure withering Russian artillery and rocket fire that could last weeks or months. 

Over the past two weeks, the Biden administration began shipping out $1.2 billion worth of howitzers, around 200,000 artillery rounds, armored vehicles, counter-battery radars and experimental new armed drones capable of flying into targets. The deliveries are a significant advance from the small arms and Javelin anti-tank armor shipments that dominated the first eight weeks of fighting, and which helped stave off Russian thrusts toward the capital of Kyiv in the early days of the invasion. 

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WNU Editor: I do not know if Ukraine commanders are desperate. But what I find revealing in the above article is that Politico is saying that they are.