NATO official predicts Ukraine war to pit quantity against quality, as Zaluzhnyi skips meeting amidst difficult situation on front line.

The war in Ukraine will increasingly be a battle between large numbers of poorly trained Russian troops with outdated equipment and a smaller Ukrainian force with better Western weapons and training, according to NATO's top military official. Russia is deploying significant numbers of T-54 tanks, an old model designed in the years after World War Two. The Russians will focus on quantity, while the Ukrainians will focus on quality with Western weapon systems and Western training. NATO military chiefs restated "unrelenting support" to Ukraine.