One of the truisms of combat operations is that nothing happens as fast as you want until it starts happening a lot faster than you’d want. I think that is where we find ourselves 407 days into.
In a major policy shift, Germany has announced that it will be supplying Ukraine with 50 Gepard anti-aircraft tanks. However, the Swiss Government has blocked the transfer of the Gepard's 35mm ammunition.
Germany, France, and other EU countries exploited a loophole in the 2014 arms embargo against Russia, exporting over $375 million in military equipment to Moscow.