The broadness of Vladimir Putin’s latest Ukraine attack, and its energy targets, may cap the effect that Western aid could have.
The mass strikes unleashed by Russian President Vladimir Putin early Monday have spotlighted a gap in Ukraine’s defense system, raising the pressure on Western allies to quickly deliver more advanced military technology. But those efforts may run up against their own limitations when it comes to helping Ukraine defend itself against Moscow.
On Monday, Germany announced it would provide the first of four new air defense systems to Ukraine within days, urging other nations that „the renewed missile fire on Kyiv and the many other cities show how important it is to supply Ukraine with air defence systems quickly“—an argument that both Ukraine’s defense minister and the European Commission have made in recent days.
But the broadness of Putin’s latest attack, and its energy targets, could cap the effect that Western aid could have.
