According to him, the armed forces of Ukraine are conducting an offensive in the Donbass and Kherson region.

“We need to provide them with the military capabilities they need to continue the offensive,” RIA Novosti quotes Kirby as saying in an interview with CNN.

Earlier, the Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, said that the possible supply of American ATACMS ballistic missiles to Kyiv is fraught with drawing Washington into a conflict with Russia.