U.S. “Tank Killer Bradley Armored Vehicle, etc.
Additional aid of 4.7 trillion won to Ukraine”
Despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order for a “36-hour ceasefire” to the Russian military on the occasion of Orthodox Christmas (7th), the sound of shelling continued along the Ukrainian border.
Foreign media including Archyde.com reported on the 7th that the sound of shelling resonated throughout the day in the Bakhmut region of Donetsk region in southeastern Ukraine. “Russian forces opened fire on dozens of positions and settlements along the front line on Saturday (7th),” the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff said on Facebook. Kirilo Tymoshenko, deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, claimed that the day before Putin’s proposal for a ceasefire, Russian forces had launched two missile strikes not only in Bakhmut, but also in nearby Kramatorsk. The New York Times (NYT) of the United States reported on the same day that “Russian forces did not stop their attempts to occupy Bahmut at all, even following the ceasefire was declared.”
President Putin attended a Russian Orthodox Christmas service held at a church in the Kremlin Palace that day and said, “The church supports our soldiers who participated in the special military operation in Ukraine.” Previously, Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church said in an interview with Russian state media that the war in Ukraine was “a holy struggle once morest the West to preserve the ‘Russian world’.”
The White House announced on the 6th a military aid plan worth 3.75 billion dollars (approximately 4.725 trillion won), including 50 Bradley armored vehicles, 500 anti-tank missiles, and 250,000 rounds of ammunition. For the first time, the U.S. Army’s main Bradley armored vehicle, which is supporting Ukraine, is also called a ‘tank killer’ because it fires anti-tank missiles.
Cairo = Correspondent Seonghwi Kang yolo@donga.com
