Is the West supplying Ukraine with enough weapons?

leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania visited Kyiv on June 16th, they came bearing gifts. “We are doing everything so that Ukraine wins this war,” declared Emmanuel Macron, France’s president. He vowed to send six more “in the coming weeks”, on top of the dozen delivered so far. Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, popped up in Kyiv a day later and promised a big new military-training programme. And on June 21st a Ukrainian official said that the Panzerhaubitze 2000, a formidable German self-propelled howitzer, had arrived. Such help is desperately needed. In recent weeks Ukraine has made some gains in southern Kherson province, and on June 17th it sank a Russian vessel reinforcing Snake Island, a small Russian-occupied fortress in the Black Sea. But these are small consolations next to the steady gains that Russia’s army has made in the eastern Donbas region, where the fighting is concentrated. Russia now controls most of , a town that lies deep in a Ukrainian salient under attack from three sides, with resistance confined to an industrial zone in the west. The town can now be supplied only by river. Russian forces are also making gains west of Severodonetsk around Slovyansk, attacking the same salient from the north.