From our special correspondents in Ukraine – Artillery battles currently make up the vast majority of fighting in the eastern Donbas region, as Ukrainian soldiers await deliveries of the ammunition and high-tech weaponry promised by the West. Amid freezing temperatures, the lack of materials is drawing out the war, the soldiers tell FRANCE 24's special correspondents Catherine Norris Trent, Karim Yahiaoui and Mohamed Farhat.
In the Donbas the frontlines are mainly static, deadlocked in artillery war being fought with old and outdated weapons in freezing winter conditions. US and western allies have promised modern, precision artillery but Soviet-era material still makes up around three quarters of Ukraine’s arsenal.
