The air defense of Ukraine was forced to save the missiles – White House

Ukrainian air defense forces were forced to stockpile missiles in a missile attack on Tuesday, January 23, as there is still uncertainty about future US shipments. White House National Security Council Coordinator John Kirby said this in a briefing.

According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces “makes difficult decisions” about how many air defense missiles to use, because the lack of decision on the expansion of military aid funding from the United States forces some missiles to leave “for another day.”

“We don’t see any serious push from the Russians for any kind of ground offensive, and I’m not ruling out that they won’t try to do it… but what they are doing is trying to disable the Ukrainian air. systems defense, and these air defense systems are quite effective at knocking a lot of things out of the sky, obviously they don’t care if they can’t hit everyone, but so it’s very important that we get the additional funding, because , as I said earlier, the Ukrainians made tough decisions on the battlefield about what they were going to shoot and what they were going to save for another day,” Kirby said.

Speaking at a briefing on January 23, Kirby noted that “attacks on civilian infrastructure, residential buildings and neighborhoods are again something that Putin has not avoided in the past to break the will of the population of Ukrainians and their defenses.”

We remind you that on Tuesday night the enemy launched a joint missile attack on Ukraine, using cruise, ballistic, aircraft and anti-aircraft guided missiles. Air defense forces destroyed 21 Russian missiles. There were victims and injured in Kyiv, Kharkov and Pavlograd. Thus, in Kyiv, 20 people were injured, and a woman was also reported dead. A lot of damage and destruction was recorded in various places. In Kharkov, six people died, another 57 people were injured, including 8 children.