Ukrainian troops in the eastern part of the country are fighting the invaders with heavy artillery provided to them by America. Photos from the Donetsk region, which together with Luhansk makes up Donbass, where President Putin focused his military efforts after failing to capture Kyiv, show soldiers on top of newly supplied M109 self-propelled howitzers using 155mm artillery caliber. Samuel Crane-Evans, a military analyst at the Royal United Services Institute’s think tank, said the caliber was easier to maintain than NATO than the old 152-mm Soviet-era cannons; the ammunition they were running out of in the Ukrainian camp.
He said the impact of the new weapon would depend on the number they could withdraw. “If they don’t have much
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