Ukrainian service members unload Javelin anti-tank rockets, provided by aircraft as part of the U.S. military assistance plan for Ukraine, at the Boryspil International Airport outside Kyiv, Ukraine February 10, 2022.
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The U.S. is sending out Ukraine advanced rocket-launcher systems and 1,000 Javelin rockets as part of the Biden administration’s most current effort to equip the Ukrainian soldiers combating Russia’s intrusion, the Pentagon stated Wednesday.
The brand-new round of military support for Ukraine amounts to $700 million, the administration stated. It’s the 11 th help plan that the U.S. has actually sent out to Ukraine, and the very first to come from the $40 billion that Congress assigned for Kyiv last month.
Here’s a list of what’s consisted of in the most recent batch of security support, according to the Pentagon:
- Four High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, called HIMARS, and ammo;
- Five counter-artillery radars;
- Two air security radars;
- 1,000 Javelins and 50 Command Launch Units;
- 6,000 antiarmor weapons;
- 15,000 rounds of 155 mm weapons;
- Four Mi-17 helicopters;
- 15 tactical lorries;
- Spare parts and devices.
With the brand-new help, the Biden administration has actually sent out about $4.6 billion to Ukraine given that Russia attacked in late February, according to Pentagon spokesperson Todd Breasseale.
More than $7.3 billion in U.S. security support has actually gone to Ukraine given that 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, Breasseale stated.
President Joe Biden sketched a rough summary of the most recent help plan in an essay released Tuesday in The New York Times.
“I’ve decided that we will provide the Ukrainians with more advanced rocket systems and munitions that will enable them to more precisely strike key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine,” Biden composed, including that the U.S. will likewise continue to send out “Stinger antiaircraft missiles, powerful artillery and precision rocket systems, radars, unmanned aerial vehicles, Mi-17 helicopters and ammunition.”
Biden likewise composed the U.S. does not desire Ukraine to fire those rockets into Russia.
“We are not encouraging or enabling Ukraine to strike beyond its borders. We do not want to prolong the war just to inflict pain on Russia,” he composed.
Precision rockets fired from HIMARS releasing systems can take a trip more than 43 miles, according to the U.S. Army.
Washington got a dedication from Kyiv not to strike Russia with the U.S. weapons, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl stated at a press rundown Wednesday afternoon. Biden and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have actually talked about the concern, Kahl stated.
The U.S. is “mindful” of the possibility that the brand-new supply of weapons might intensify the dispute with Russia, Kahl stated. After the publication of Biden’s essay, the Kremlin implicated the U.S. of “deliberately pouring oil on the fire,” news outlets reported.
But Kahl preserved that “Russia doesn’t get a veto” on what devices the U.S. can supply Ukraine.
