In response to the U.S. announcement of additional military assistance to Ukraine, including long-range rockets, as fierce fighting continues in eastern and southern Ukraine, the Russian side said, ``The U.S. is deliberately trying to escalate the conflict. I am there,” he retorts.
Fierce fighting continues in the eastern and southern parts of Ukraine, and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced on SNS on the 4th that civilian facilities in the eastern Kharkiv and southern Mikolayov provinces were attacked and civilians were killed.
Under these circumstances, the Biden administration of the United States announced on the 3rd that it would provide additional military assistance of approximately $ 2.2 billion (285 billion yen in Japanese yen) to Ukraine.
Among them are rockets with a range of about 150 kilometers called "GLSDB", which is nearly twice the range of the rockets that the United States has provided to Ukraine so far. It can be fired from the rocket artillery system = Hymers.
In response, Russia's ambassador to Washington, Antonov, responded on social media on the 3rd, saying, "By providing Ukraine with powerful weapons, the United States is intentionally trying to escalate the conflict."
As the United States and Europe continue to step up their military support to Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on the 3rd that it had carried out shooting training using the state-of-the-art tank "T90M" at a training ground in the northwestern province of Leningrad, putting the West in check. It seems that there is an aim to do so.
Russia's state news agency also said the Russian Defense Ministry has decided to place four unilaterally annexed Ukrainian provinces under the jurisdiction of the Southern Military District, which is headquartered in the southern Rostov region.
Regarding this, the British Ministry of Defense criticized in an analysis on the 4th that ``the idea of integrating the newly occupied territory by the Russian army into a long-term strategic posture has been highlighted.''