Potent weapons reach Ukraine faster than the know-how to use them | World News,The Indian Express

Since the beginning of the war, the US has pledged roughly $54 billion in aid for Ukraine and supplied a bevy of weapons and equipment.

Written by Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Natalia Yermak

Since Russia invaded, Nato nations have upgraded Ukraine’s arsenal with increasingly sophisticated tools, with more promised, like the advanced multiple-launch rocket systems pledged by the United States and Britain.

But training soldiers how to use the equipment has become a significant and growing obstacle — one encountered daily by Junior Sgt. Dmytro Pysanka and his crew, operating an aged anti-tank gun camouflaged in netting and green underbrush in southern Ukraine.

Peering through the sight attached to the gun, Pysanka is greeted with a kaleidoscope of numbers and lines that, if read correctly, should give him the calculations needed to fire at Russian forces. However, errors are common in the chaos of battle.

More than a month ago, the commanders of his front-line artillery unit secured a far more advanced tool: a high-tech, Western-supplied laser range finder to help with targeting.

https://indianexpress.com/article/world/ukraine-war-western-weapons-7957095/

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