Europe | Lock and load
Ukraine is building up its forces for an offensive
It has received a bonanza of Western arms in the past few months
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Lock and load”
Europe
March 11th 2023- Ukraine is building up its forces for an offensive
- France is in a stand-off against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform
- Turkey’s opposition has picked its man
- Ukraine’s most committed backer wins a huge election victory in Estonia
- Russia’s population nightmare is going to get even worse
- Germany is letting a domestic squabble pollute Europe’s green ambitions

From the March 11th 2023 edition
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The war-torn country can substitute some—but nothing like all—of the kit it gets from America
Europe vows to defend Ukraine, but prays for Trump’s support
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