Ukraine has asked the West to supply advanced long-range multiple rocket launchers to fight against Russia. “If the West really wants Ukraine to win, maybe it’s time to give us MLRS?” Advisor to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Mykhailo Podoliak said on Twitter yesterday. MLRS are US-made artillery systems.
“It’s hard to fight when you’re attacked from a distance of 70 kilometers and you don’t have anything to defend yourself with,” Podoljak said. Ukraine could bring Russia back “behind the Iron Curtain”. “But for that we need effective weapons. Here and now.”
According to a media report, the US government is considering sending advanced long-range multiple rocket launchers to Ukraine. The MLRS and HIMARS artillery systems could fire projectiles up to 300 kilometers away, the broadcaster CNN reported on Thursday, citing several officials. A new military aid package could be announced as early as next week.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich advocated deliveries of Harpoon-type missiles that can be used to attack ships. With this, Ukraine could break through the Russian blockade of the seaports, Arestovich was quoted as saying by the Unian agency.