“The weapons that Ukraine’s allies send into the war zone are increasingly designed to attack rather than defend,” the newspaper said.
The material in the publication indicates that the states supplying weapons to kyiv initially insisted that they were only transferring defensive weapons. However, a year after the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, the types of weapons supplied “changed dramatically”.
Namely, notes the New York Times, Western countries began to send armored personnel carriers, long-range missiles and modern tanks.
Earlier, the head of the CIA, William Burns, in a conversation with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, warned him about a possible reduction in military assistance.