Ukraine asks US for long-range missiles to hit Russia’s rear

Ukraine is now negotiating with the United States for long-range missiles to hit the enemy in the rear and thwart an expected general offensive by Russia, which accuses NATO of seeking strategic defeat with new weapons for Kyiv.

“Each phase of the war requires a certain type of weapon. There is already a coalition of tanks. Negotiations are already underway on long-range missiles and the supply of fighter jets,” Adviser to the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podoliak wrote on Twitter.

After promising the West to send more than a hundred tanks and tanks, Kyiv has now requested missiles with a range of up to 300 kilometers, with which it could even hit the territory of the annexed Crimean peninsula.

First rockets, then planes

US President Joe Biden will soon discuss weapons with the leader UkraineVolodymyr Zelensky, to whom he has already refused to supply F-16 fighters.

However, Washington will soon announce another $2.2 billion military aid package for Kyiv, international media reported on Wednesday.

Kyiv will reportedly receive missiles with a range of 150 kilometers (GLSDB), as well as equipment for Patriot anti-aircraft systems, precision-guided munitions and Javelin anti-tank missiles.

What you won’t get Ukraine These are ATACMS, missiles that can hit targets at a distance of almost 300 kilometers.

It was diplomat Michael Fackfall, the former US ambassador to Moscow, who asked Congress to send ATACMS to be able to destroy Iranian drones stationed in Crimea.

In this regard, the Ukrainian military intelligence emphasized that the arsenals of the Army Russia now they are only 80-120 kilometers from the Kyiv positions.

“To launch an attack on them, Ukraine he needs long-range artillery,” Vadim Skibitsky, his spokesman, told CNN.

He stressed that these missiles, in addition to tanks and armored vehicles, are needed so that Kyiv can launch a “quick counteroffensive” before Russian forces complete their defensive fortifications.

Russia condemns arms diplomacy

“This will require additional efforts from us, but will not change the course of events, since the special operation will continue. Of course, all this creates very special conditions for us, hostile conditions, which we cannot ignore,” the presidential spokesman said. This was stated by Dmitry Peskov during a daily telephone briefing.

Peskov condemned that “NATO’s entire military infrastructure is working against Russia”, including its reconnaissance aircraft and satellites.

“Of course, we see an increase in the volume and range of weapons supplied to the Kyiv puppet regime, including offensive ones. NATO ups the stakes as strategic defeat remains hopeful Russiabut it won’t work,” said the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin.

Naryshkin predicted that “the United States and its allies are determined to wage war on Russia to the last Ukrainian.”

Security Council Russia he went even further, assuring that “the West will not limit itself to the supply of tanks,” and reminded Germany of the defeat of the Soviet Union in 1945, and France of the failure of the Napoleonic invasion of 1812.

Conventional forces in Donbas

Meanwhile the troops Russia They managed to advance in the Donbass more than expected, largely due to the transfer, after several months of pause, of conventional forces, which were supposed to replace the mercenaries of the Wagner company.

Now mercenaries could be sent to the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, which are also not fully controlled by Moscow.

The American Institute for the Study of War does not exclude the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the Bakhmut stronghold, in the vicinity of which the Russians captured several cities.

The pro-Russians reported today that their troops were “closing the siege,” a claim denied by Wagner’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Bakhmut Mayor Oleksiy Reva this week appealed to the 6,500 residents who still remain in the city to leave the pre-conflict city of 70,000, where Kyiv said it repelled an airstrike on Wednesday.

Denis Pushilin, the pro-Russian acting governor of Donetsk, recalled that the main Ukrainian strongholds in the Kramatorsk and Slavyansk region are only 40 kilometers from Bakhmut.

According to Ukrainian military intelligence, Ukraine some 326,000 combatants are currently deployed. Russiawhich does not include the 150,000 mobilized who are still being instructed at Russian military training grounds.

(As reported by EFE)

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