By Eliza Popova
According to journalists, this request will be a test for Biden's administration, how ready to support Kiev's military goals. Washington is still urging Ukraine to focus on fighting in the eastern and southern parts of the state, especially in the Kharkiv and Kherson areas, where the Armed Forces conducted a successful counter -offensive. However, Kyiv insists on increasing the amount of weapons, including the US Ballistic missiles of ATACMC.
Currently, the Russian command is using the occupied peninsula to launch Iranian drones-Kamikadze Shahd-136, which attack civilian infrastructure in the country. And to counteract the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine requires rockets of greater range. This would not only repel attacks, but also hit the objects from where the drones fly out.
At the same time, US President Joe Biden had, until recently, has refused to give Ukraine ATACMC, fearing that they could be used for strikes in the territory of the aggressor country. In addition, the United States does not want to risk an expansion of conflict with Russia. "The reason we do not give them [Ukraine] this weapon is the differences regarding the issues of strikes for the purposes in the Crimea," the Congress representative commented.
Ukraine's military attaché in Washington Major General Boris Kremenetsky, for his part, stated that Ukraine needs more rockets that can be launched from the Himars launcher already provided to Ukraine. "We need to impress a few goals in the occupied Ukrainian territory," he commented.
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