Russia attacked Ukraine for nearly 100 days, dismantled the Ukrainian defense line with indiscriminate bombing, successfully captured the southern strategic city of Mariupol, and repeated its old tricks on the industrial city of Severo-Donetsk in the Donbas region of Ukrainian; the city is located in Lulu. Gansk region, its governor said yesterday that the Russian army has controlled 70% of the city. The area under the control of pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine continues to expand. U.S. President Biden announced that he will provide Ukraine with advanced precision rocket systems and munitions to help the Ukrainian army attack distant Russian military targets on the battlefield to enhance Ukraine’s negotiating leverage. . U.S. officials pointed out that the range of the rocket system is medium-range, and the Ukrainian side promised not to shoot rockets into Russia.
The Biden administration announced a new $700 million (about 5.46 billion Hong Kong dollars) weapons aid package for Ukraine on Wednesday. The New York Times published an article by Biden on Tuesday night, saying, “Provide Ukrainians with more advanced rocket systems and munitions. , which can help them attack their main targets more precisely on the Ukrainian battlefield.” Biden also said that they are not encouraging or facilitating Ukraine’s cross-border attacks, “We don’t want to prolong the war, we just want to make Russia painful.” Biden said on Monday that the United States would not provide Ukraine with a rocket system that can reach Russia. U.S. officials revealed that the rocket system to be provided to Ukraine is a medium-range rocket, usually up to 70 kilometers away, and stressed that Ukraine promised not to attack targets in Russia.
The Kremlin denounces the US for fueling the fire
A Kremlin spokesman yesterday criticized the United States for “deliberately and deliberately adding fuel to the fire” and that the Russian government did not believe Ukraine’s commitments. It is said that the Ukrainian army lost Mariupol and other places because its long-range weapons were inferior to the Russian army. It is expected that Ukraine will use rocket launchers provided by the United States in the Udong Donbass to counter Russian artillery and destroy Russian strongholds in areas where the fighting is fierce, such as Severo Donetsk, which the Russian side aims to win. The city is 145 kilometers away from the southern border of Russia and is the only area controlled by the Ukrainian government in Luhansk Oblast. Russia is rushing to seize the city before the arrival of Western weapons and fully control Lu Oblast. Severo Donetsk, which was built in 1934 as an industrial city with chemical and fertilizer plants, was nearly in ruins after two weeks of intense Russian artillery bombardment. Local officials said a huge cloud of orange mushrooms and toxic substances were released after a chemical plant’s nitric acid stockpiles were bombarded.
Originally published on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/international/Several Donetsk is on the verge of falling – the U.S. supplies Ukrainian medium-range rocket systems to force Russia to truce/322249