Russia has yet to slow a Western arms express into Ukraine

By ROBERT BURNS
AP National Security Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Western weaponry pouring into Ukraine helped blunt Russia’s initial offensive and seems certain to play a central role in the approaching battle for Ukraine’s contested Donbas region. Yet the Russian military is making little headway halting what has become a historic arms express. The Russians appear not to have put a high priority on arms interdiction, perhaps because their air force is leery of flying into Ukraine’s air defenses to search out and attack supply convoys on the move. The Russians have struck fixed sites like arms depots and fuel storage locations but to limited effect.