Ukraine has formed a powerful new brigade, but it lacks critical weapons.

One of the newest brigades of the Ukrainian army, the 155th mechanized brigade, arrived in Ukraine after almost three months of training in Poland and France. As Forbes analyst David Ax writes, the brigade is the best and most heavily armed of the new brigades formed in Ukraine in recent months. However, in order to fully engage in battle, it lacks critical equipment – drones.

As the analyst writes, the 155th Mechanized Brigade was formed in May, but until September it existed mainly on paper, since the bulk of the new brigade – 2,300 soldiers – went to…