News - Middle East: Ukraine has complained about its Western allies' late delivery of weapons and munitions to the Kiev forces, blaming the West's delays for its latest defeats against Russia.

“We have a plan. We are working to the plan. We are doing everything possible and impossible. But without timely supply [of Western arms and munitions], it’s hard for us,” Ukraine’s defense minister, Rustem Umerov, said on Sunday.
Umerov added that the Ukrainian forces were “losing territory” to Russian troops because “50 percent” of the arms and munitions reached them late.
He said that no modern nation could win a war without "air superiority," reminding that the F-16 jets promised by the West had not yet been delivered to Kiev.
Umerov said that the Kiev forces had been building new fortifications and “thousands of strongholds.”
However, he added that the West's delay in supplying arms and munitions was leading to setbacks and deaths on the battlefield.