Infantrymen training with a T-80 tank in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
Infantrymen training with a T-80 tank in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on July 2, 2024.
  • Ukraine is creating new brigades but can't arm all of them, military experts said.
  • The Institute for the Study of War said this is likely due to a lack of Western weapons and delays.
  • Delays in weapons deliveries are the "biggest tragedy of this war," Ukraine's president said this week.

Ukraine is creating several new brigades but it can't arm all of them, military experts said.

In an interview with The Economist in May, Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk, the commander of Ukraine's ground forces, said that Ukraine planned to create at least 10 new brigades to prepare for a Russian offensive.