Video has emerged showing a tank - which a military analyst has told Sky News is a Challenger 2 - being destroyed in Ukraine.
Russia has accused Ukraine of using Australian drones to attack targets on its territory.
Reports suggested the video was filmed near the frontline in the Zaporizhzhia region, though Sky News has been unable to confirm the exact location. Crimea is almost certainly the number one priority for Putin - he will not want to compromise the security of Russia's only warm water port at Sevastopol.
In the longer-term, Ukraine will need its own combat air capability as this will form a vital pillar of its long-term security strategy. However, as others have pointed out below, Western nations do not have any"spare" weapons in their inventories. When I was serving in the MoD there was a constant battle for limited resources, and war stocks of weapons were always slightly below those required - identified as a"risk".
Books will be written about how the war was conducted, the evolving appetite of the West to supporting Ukraine, and what more could or should have been done. But we will certainly see Ukraine featuring more and more prominently in the domestic debate as the American election cycle ramps up. Vivek Ramaswamy, who mimicked Trump and was widely considered the winner of the debate, said:"I think that this is disastrous, that we are protecting against an invasion across somebody else's border, when we should use those same military resources to prevent the invasion of our own southern border here in the United States of America."
Back to the question: the slow progress in Ukraine should force all candidates on both sides to focus their Ukraine policy.
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