WARSAW — Ukraine has acquired “a couple of dozen” main battle tanks from the Czech Republic, according to a senior Ukrainian official, as Central European members of NATO race to
A crowdfunding initiative launched in a desperate bid to obtain new military hardware for embattled Ukrainian forces has raised nearly $30 million in less than three weeks as a variety of tactics honed in Western electoral politics prove valuable in the context of the war in Ukraine.
Pledging weapons to help Ukraine fend off the Russian invasion is one thing, but getting them into the hands of fighters will require outwitting Russian spies and saboteurs along a perilous spy chain in which countless lives, and possibly a nation s future, hang in the balance.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s open threat to use nuclear weapons against NATO allies supporting Ukraine appears to European officials to be a watershed in high-stakes brinkmanship which could foreshadow a