As Russian troops intensify their offensive in eastern Ukraine, the United States and others have announced additional military support for Ukraine.
Russia is vigilant about these moves, and Putin's closest aides have argued that they "will only lead to further human casualties and destruction."
Russian troops are stepping up their offensive to siege Severodonetsk in eastern Luhansk for full control, and local Governor Haidai said that the Ukrainian base in Severodonetsk still has about 500 citizens at the Azoto chemical plant. He has been evacuated and has revealed that 40 of them are children.
The Russian Defense Ministry has announced that it will set up a "humanitarian corridor" on the 15th to evacuate these citizens from the factory, but then "Ukraine is ironic despite Russia's unprecedented steps. He unilaterally insisted that he interfered with humanitarian activities, "and the evacuation of citizens still seems to be difficult.
As the Russian army intensifies its offensive, Ukraine's Under Secretary of Defense Hanna Malyar pointed out on the 14th that the Russian army uses nearly 10 times as many shells as the Ukrainian army on the 1st, and said about military support from the West, "We Only 10% of the weapons we asked for were received at this time, "he said, calling for accelerated provision of weapons.
Against this backdrop, on the 15th, a meeting was held in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, under the leadership of the United States to discuss military assistance to Ukraine.
Participants from about 50 countries, including NATO = members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, announced that they would provide more weapons and ammunition, such as the multiple launch rocket system.
In addition, US President Joe Biden met with Ukrainian President Zelensky on the telephone on the 15th and announced that he would provide additional military support worth 1 billion dollars, or about 130 billion yen in Japanese yen.
The Russian side is strongly wary of such movements of Western military support, and the Russian Defense Ministry announced on the 15th that a missile attack destroyed the ammunition storage of weapons provided by NATO in western Lviv Oblast. He also emphasized that the eastern states of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk also destroyed weapons provided by the West.
In addition, one of Putin's closest aides, the Secretary of the Security Council Patrushev, said on the 15th, "The West continues to send weapons to Ukraine and is trying to put pressure on Russia by strengthening sanctions. These actions are counterproductive. It only causes artificial conflicts and leads to further human damage and destruction. "