19 retired generals and ex-officials urge US to increase arms supplies to Ukraine

Group calls on Biden administration to step up pace or run the risk of unintentionally seizing defeat from the jaws of victory'

Nineteen retired US generals and former officials have called on the Biden administration to step up the pace of arms supplies to Ukraine or run the risk of unintentionally seizing defeat from the jaws of victory".

They said that the US was providing enough weaponry to ensure a stalemate but not sufficient to help Ukraine recapture territory seized by Russia. The former officers, diplomats and other officials argue the administration is inhibited by fear of triggering a Russian escalation, possibly involving nuclear weapons - but they argue that failure to defeat Vladimir Putin in Ukraine increases the danger of a confrontation with Moscow later on less favourable grounds".