Putin wanted a militarily weaker Ukraine. He got the opposite
April 26, 20223:36 PM ET
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Airmen and civilians from the 436th Aerial Port Squadron place ammunition, weapons and other equipment on pallets bound for Ukraine at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Jan. 21, 2022.
Mauricio Campino/U.S. Air Force via AP
WASHINGTON — The longer Ukraine's army fends off the invading Russians, the more it absorbs the advantages of Western weaponry and training — exactly the transformation President Vladimir Putin wanted to prevent by invading in the first place.
The list of arms flowing to Ukraine is long and growing longer. It includes new American battlefield aerial drones and the most modern U.S. and Canadian artillery, anti-tank weapons from Norway and others, armored vehicles and anti-ship missiles from Britain and Stinger counter-air missiles from the U.S., Denmark and other countries.
If Ukraine can hold off the Russians, its accumulating arsenal of Western weapons could have a transformative effect in a country that has, like other former Soviet republics, relied mainly on arms and equipment from the Soviet era.
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/26/1094854213/putin-ukraine-stronger-military
