Irish Examiner View: Increased military aid gives Ukraine a fighting chance

Even the Germans have started delivering anti-tank weapons, Stinger anti-aircraft weapons and, according to foreign minister Annalena Baerbock, “other things we didn’t want to talk about in public”.

A Ukrainian soldier stands a top a destroyed Russian APC after recent battle in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 26. Picture: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

Got a fighter jet handy? A couple of 155mm Howitzers to spare, perhaps?

If you have, you will be joining an ever-growing list of countries queuing up to get military materiel to Ukraine in a hurry. Russian prioritisation of the east and south of the country in its latest illegal assault on its neighbour has changed the military picture for the defenders of Ukraine, and their military needs have now changed too.