Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and NATO chief Stoltenberg urge faster arms supplies

Drawn-out Ukrainian efforts to mobilise more troops, and the belated building of battlefield fortifications, are other factors undermining Ukraine’s war effort, military analysts say. Nick Reynolds, a research fellow for land warfare at the London-based Royal United Services Institute, said the war “is still largely an artillery duel”. He said he did not expect to see major movement of the front lines in the near term, but that “the conditions are being set for which side has military advantage at the front line … [and] the Russian military is in a better position at the moment. When we see one side or the other being in a position to move the front line, at some stage, manoeuvre will be restored to the battlefield,” Reynolds told the Associated Press news agency.