 The United States leaned way back when politics... We'll talk about the Ukraine measure going forward. That's not been abandoned, but there's a lot more work that needs to be done. ...caused a five-month suspension in arms shipments to Ukraine just as the Russian Air Force was unleashing a devastating new weapon. The Russians discovered that they can put these cheap glide kits onto the glide bombs and convert their large Soviet-era stockpiles of dumb gravity bombs into a precision weapon.