UK will send 6,000 more missiles to Ukraine, Boris Johnson says ahead of Nato summit

Ukraine’s reliance on the West for support was inevitable due to its underdeveloped stockpile of weapons, experts said. “Before 2014, it didn’t see itself as being under military threat,” said Nick Reynolds, a research analyst for land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute. He said: “Russia annexed Crimea and invaded the Donbas and Ukraine’s military was very unprepared for that. It has spent the past eight years trying to rectify it.”