Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on 24 February this year, the UK and its Western allies have provided Kyiv with a huge quantity of military hardware to help with the defensive effort.
The impact of these donations has been obvious on the ground, with Vladimir Putin’s forces struggling to realise the conquest he had conceived of as a “special military operation” that would amount to little more than a formality, a walkover taking just a matter of weeks to achieve.
