From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavarnese, and this is The Daily.

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the United States has held back from sending

Kiev its most powerful weapons, arming them, critics said, with just enough not to lose

the war, but not enough to win it.

Over the past few weeks, that has started to change.

The United States may be soon sending even further advanced weapons systems to Ukraine.

The UK Prime Minister, Rishu Sunei, said Britain would send tanks to Ukraine along with

additional artillery support.

Ukraine's foreign minister says Patriot missiles from the US will soon arrive in Kiev

to help in its fight against Russia.

Today, my colleague Eric Schmidt, on how the West is supplying more and more powerful

weapons and what that escalation tells us about the future of the war.

It's Thursday, January 19th.

So Eric, in the past few weeks, we passed what felt like to me a pretty important marker

in the war in Ukraine, which was that the US agreed to give Ukraine Patriot missiles.

It's really powerful weapons that Ukraine had been asking for for a long time, but it

never got.

And then European countries said they'd give Ukraine tanks something they had not given

before.

So my question for you is, what is all of this say about where we are in the war?

You know, that the West is giving all these really advanced weapons.

Well, we're at a really critical phase of the war right now, Sabrina.

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