6:30 a.m .: Two American combat drones offered to Ukraine, according to the Washington Post
According to the Wall Street Journal, an American defense company, General Atomics, offered kyiv to sell it two Reaper MQ-9 drones for a symbolic dollar.
The cost of transportation to Ukraine ($10 million) and maintenance ($8 million per year) would be borne by kyiv, the newspaper said.
The US government has not commented on this information.
True unmanned bomber planes, the Reaper MQ-9 are "heavy" 5-tonne drones capable of flying 24 hours straight and reaching 480 km/h.
Their cost fluctuates between 13 and 16 million dollars.
6 a.m.: US preparing to send longer-range weapons to Ukraine, Reuters says
The United States is preparing new military aid for Ukraine, worth $2.2 billion, which will include long-range rockets for the first time, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told Reuters. the question.
The new aid, which is expected to be formalized in the coming days, comes as Washington announced last week that it would send Abrams heavy combat tanks to kyiv, responding to a long-standing request from Ukrainian authorities and ending diplomatic differences between Western allies.
According to one of the sources, part of this aid will be used to finance the delivery of a new weapon with a range of 150 kilometers, more than the weapons provided so far by the United States to Ukraine .
However, Washington refuses to respond to kyiv's requests to send missiles with a range of 297 km.
Among the equipment that will be sent to Ukraine as part of this new aid are also guided missiles and anti-tank missiles, the two representatives said.
5:35 a.m .: Benjamin Netanyahu says he is considering military aid to Ukraine
"Well, I'm definitely looking into it," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with US broadcaster CNN, when asked if Israel was planning to offer help to Ukraine. , such as its Iron Dome air defense system.
Benjamin Netanyahu has so far refrained from taking a strong side with Ukraine, keen to spare Russia, which controls airspace in Israel's neighboring Syria and usually turns a blind eye to Jewish state operations against Iran.
He confirmed that the United States had transferred to Ukraine artillery ammunition that had previously been stored in Israel, and suggested that the Jewish state was acting on its side to hinder the production in Iran of weapons for the Russia.
"The United States has just taken a huge part of Israel's ammunition and sent it to Ukraine. Israel is also acting, frankly, in ways that I won't detail here, against Iran's arms production. which are being used against Ukraine," the Prime Minister said.
Benjamin Netanyahu said he was asked to act as an unofficial mediator after Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year, but did not follow through because he was then in opposition.
He added that he was ready to intervene as a mediator if the belligerents and the United States asked him to.
"I've been around long enough to know there has to be a right time and the right circumstances. If they come up, I'll definitely consider it," he said.
3 a.m.: EU-Ukraine summit Friday in kyiv, a "strong signal" sent to Moscow
Ukraine and the European Union will hold a summit in kyiv on Friday, the Ukrainian government welcoming this "strong signal" sent to Moscow almost a year after the start of the Russian invasion.
For its part, the Russian army, on the offensive in recent days, claimed Tuesday the conquest of a village near Bakhmout, hot spot of fighting in eastern Ukraine.
The summit with the twenty-seven is an important step, several months after kyiv obtained the status of official candidate for EU membership.
In his Tuesday evening address, Zelensky hoped the summit would reflect a high "level of cooperation and progress" with the EU.
"We are waiting for news for Ukraine," he said.
"The fact that this summit is being held in Kyiv is a strong signal addressed to both our partners and our enemies", Prime Minister Denys Chmygal had welcomed earlier, saying "expect from the summit a positive interim evaluation of our efforts for European integration".
These two days must allow "Europe to believe in the victory of Ukraine", he insisted.
They will take place a few days after the Westerners gave the green light, after long procrastination, to deliver to the Ukrainian army heavy tanks extracted from their arsenal.
With AFP and Reuters
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