Leaders | Give them the tools

The West needs to send Ukraine more and better weapons

The next phase of the war may be harder—and just as important

Apr 23rd 2022

THE BATTLE of Kyiv may be over, at least for now, but the battle of Donbas is becoming more intense. On April 18th Ukraine’s government reported a wave of attacks along a 400km stretch of the front lines, mostly in the Donbas region, parts of which have been under the control of Russian-backed separatists since 2014. Vladimir Putin wants to grab the rest of Donbas, along with other bits of southern and eastern Ukraine. That may not sound as important as the siege of Kyiv, but the consequences of a Russian victory would be almost as bad.

This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Give them the tools”