Washington is beefing up its military aid to Ukraine, with advanced rocket launchers

Published on: 06/01/2022 – 04:34 The United States announced on Tuesday that it would deliver to kyiv advanced systems of multiple and mobile rocket launchers with a range of around 80 kilometers, while ensuring that it would not give Ukraine the means to strike outside its borders. The United States announced on Tuesday, May 31, to provide Ukraine, which urgently requests them, with advanced systems of multiple and mobile rocket launchers, but against the assurance that they will not be used to strike Russian territory. Washington will deliver “to the Ukrainians more advanced missile systems and munitions that will allow them to more accurately hit key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine,” wrote Joe Biden in a contribution to the New York Times, published Tuesday by the newspaper. .A senior White House official said in an interview with the press that it was Himars (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System), that is to say multiple rocket launchers mounted on light armor. He indicated that this equipment, the number of which was not specified, would have a range of around 80 kilometres. It is therefore not a question of very long-range systems, of several hundred kilometres, Americans, but it is nevertheless a significant reinforcement of Ukrainian capacities. Condition posedIndicating that he wanted Ukraine to be “in the strongest possible position” in the event of negotiations with Russia, the American president wrote to him: ” We do not encourage Ukraine and we do not give Ukraine the means to strike outside its borders.” The senior White House official told him that “the Ukrainians had provided assurances that ‘they wouldn’t use these systems against Russian territory.”Since the start of the conflict, Joe Biden has always been careful not to supply weapons that he believes would put the United States in a position of co-belligerent alongside Ukrainians $700 million The equipment is part of a new, larger package of US military assistance to Ukraine totaling $700 million, details of which are due to be released on Wednesday. – multiple rockets to strike Russian positions in depth while placing their batteries farther from the front. partial control in 2014. Western cohesion reaffirmed no pressure on the Ukrainian government, whether in private or in public, to make territorial concessions.” This clarification comes after a series of calls former diplomats or commentators to quickly launch peace negotiations, and some of whom, such as former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, seem to believe that this will pass for kyiv by the sacrifice of certain territories in the east.Joe Biden, who orchestrated the Western response to Vladimir Putin, finally assures in his tribune that the cohesion between Westerners remains intact: if the Russian president “expects us to hesitate or to divide in the coming months , he is wrong.” With AFP