1) With a combination of lies and wishful thinking, Russian propagandists try to downplay the importance of Western arms supplies to Ukraine. Some examples in the thread @Textyorgua_Eng #GreyZone #AgainstRussianLies
2) One of the strategies of Russian propagandists is to say that Western weapons are faulty, outdated or hard to use. For instance, one of the articles on Lenta is titled "AFU [Ukrainian] general talks constant breakdowns of American howitzers." 
3) It relies on the National Defence magazine interview with Gen. Volodymyr Karpenko. This headline gives the impression that howitzers are faulty and break down by themselves. However, in the original interview, Gen. Karpenko says the following:
4) Thus, American howitzers are damaged in artillery duels, which is not what Lenta leads its audience to believe.
5) Russian propagandists are also sure that Ukrainians won't be able to learn how to use modern weapons supplied by the Western allies. Here a member of Russia's State Duma, says that Ukraine has no soldiers to spare to train for American fighter jets.
6) Finally, Russian propaganda spreads the narrative that Ukraine re-sells the weapons it gets on the black market, although there is no evidence of that.
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