More weapons for Ukraine
US sends $625 million in military aid
10/04/2022, 8:28 p.m
HIMARS rocket launcher systems, howitzers and armored vehicles: all this is included in the new aid package that US President Joe Biden has promised his Ukrainian counterpart Zelenskyy to support Kyiv in its fight once morest “Russian aggression”.
The US has pledged an additional $625 million in military aid to Ukraine. According to the White House, US President Joe Biden said in a telephone call to the Ukrainian head of state Volodymyr Zelenskyj that the US would, among other things, supply additional HIMARS rocket launcher systems, artillery systems, ammunition and armored vehicles.
Biden assured Selenskyj that he would continue to support Ukraine so that the country might defend itself once morest “Russian aggression”. The US would help for as long as needed. The President also stressed that the US would “never recognize the alleged annexation of Ukrainian territory by Russia”. According to the US State Department, the new armament package includes four HIMARS missile launcher systems, 16 155mm caliber howitzers and 16 105mm caliber howitzers.
The United States pledged $1.1 billion in military aid to Ukraine last week. With the new package now announced, US military aid to Ukraine since Russia’s war of aggression began on February 24 has totaled more than $16.8 billion, according to the US State Department.
Fear of further escalation of the war
Ukraine recently had a number of military successes once morest Russia. At the same time, the Russian annexation of the four Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson last Friday fueled fears of a further escalation of the war.
According to its own statements, the Ukrainian army liberated other towns from Russian troops during counterattacks in southern Ukraine. The head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak, wrote to the Telegram news service regarding five places that had been recaptured. Videos from the long-fought village of Davydiv Brid and the villages of Velyka Oleksandrivka and Starossillya on the Inhulets River circulated on social networks. In addition, Ukrainian units are said to have moved into Dudchany on the Dnipro River. Official confirmations were initially not available.
