The latest tranche of U.S. military aid highlights efforts to meet Ukraine’s most urgent military needswhile also providing for its defense infrastructure in the longer term. The HIMARS being sent to Ukraine will represent a “core component of Ukraine’s fighting force in the future,” and will take “a few years” to build and deliver, according to a senior U.S. defense official.
The announcements come as Russia presses as many as 300,000 conscripts into service to replace and reinforce beleaguered troops driven back by Ukrainian offensives in the east and south, The Washington Post’s Alex Horton reports.
