The U.S. government will send advanced multi-rocket launchers and ammunition to the Ukrainian military that will allow it to hit “more accurately key targets on the battlefield” in Ukraine, the US president assured in a text published in the New York Times yesterday. York Times on its pages with opinion articles.
Although Biden did not name which systems he was referring to in this article, a senior White House official explained to reporters after the article was published that HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems) were to be sent. targeting system, adapted to light armor.
These systems have an effective range of about 80 kilometers. It is therefore not a weapon with a long range of several hundred kilometers, which the United States also has in its arsenal.
These weapons systems are part of the new, larger $ 700 million US military aid package to Ukraine, some details of which will be revealed later today.
According to US officials, it will include ammunition, artillery radar, aerial surveillance radar, anti-tank weapons, etc.
“We do not encourage Ukraine and do not give Ukraine the means to strike beyond its borders,” he said. That is, blows in Russia.
Mr Biden has said since the outbreak of the war that he will not send weapons to Ukraine that he says would turn the United States into a war zone in the conflict with Russia.
In an article in the New York Times, the Democratic president also promised, at a time when the Ukrainian army is facing extremely intense Russian military operations in the eastern part of the country, that “it will not put any pressure on the Ukrainian government, according to privately or publicly, to cede its lands “.
Russian forces openly say their goal is to take over the entire Donbas basin, as industrialized eastern Ukraine is called. Pro-Russian separatist rebels, backed by Moscow, took control of part of eastern Ukraine in 2014.
Russian forces occupied most of Severodonetsk, a city of strategic importance, on Tuesday.
The Ukrainians have been asking for some time to send them multiple rocket launchers that will allow them to hit Russian positions at a greater depth by keeping their arrays away from the fronts.
The US Congress recently approved a giant $ 40 billion bailout package for sending mainly military aid to Ukraine.
In an article in the Times, Biden reiterated that the goal of his government was not to overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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