[LIVE] Washington to provide Ukraine with "more advanced missile systems"
Himars (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System), multiple rocket launchers mounted on light armored vehicles.
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The main points:
► The United States has announced that it will provide Ukraine, which is urgently requesting them,
with advanced systems of multiple and mobile rocket launchers
, but against the assurance that they will not be used to strike Russian territory.
► Russian forces now control
most of Sievierodonetsk
, a city in eastern Ukraine they have been shelling and trying to take for weeks, the region's governor announced on Tuesday.
► Ukrainian justice has identified "a few thousand" cases of
alleged war crimes in Donbass
, said its general prosecutor visiting The Hague, as Russian forces advance in this eastern region, their strategic priority .
► Kiev won a battle by obtaining an
embargo on Russian oil
from the Europeans .
The leaders of the 27 EU countries have reached an agreement which should make it possible to reduce their imports of Russian oil by some 90% by the end of the year in order to dry up the financing of the war led by Moscow in Ukraine.
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6:30 a.m .:
Washington to provide Ukraine with “more advanced missile systems”
The United States has announced that it will provide Ukraine, which urgently demands them, with advanced multiple and mobile rocket launcher systems, but against the assurance that they will not be used to strike Russian territory.
Washington will deliver “
to the Ukrainians more advanced missile systems and ammunition that will allow them to more accurately hit key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine
,” writes Joe Biden in a contribution to The
New York Times
, published Tuesday evening by the log.
A senior White House official said in an interview with the press that it was Himars (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System), that is to say multiple rocket launchers mounted on light armor.
These are therefore not very long-range systems, several hundred kilometers, as the Americans also have, but it is nevertheless a significant reinforcement of Ukrainian capabilities.
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