The White House announced Thursday that the US will provide “important” defense assets to Ukraine, but currently without delivering the ATACMS long-range missiles requested by Kiev.
The US president ‘has decided that he will not provide [mísseis] ATACMS, but did not rule out this possibility in the future,” National Security Advisor Jack Sullivan said at a news conference.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is currently in Washington where he will be received at the White House, stated this week that it would be a “disappointment” if he did not return to Kiev without these powerful tactical missiles.
However, Sullivan praised the results of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, criticized by several US military officials who spoke anonymously to the media.
“In reality, Ukraine is regaining ground, it is doing it methodically, step by step,” he said.
Joe Biden’s adviser stated that, mainly thanks to US military assistance, Ukrainian forces were able to “liberate more territory in three months than the Russians were able to take in eight months.”
“Several major cities in Ukraine today are not under Russian occupation or rule. First of all, because of the courage of Ukrainian soldiers and the Ukrainian people who support them, but also, not insignificantly, because of the military support we provided them,” he said. Jack Sullivan.
Several Republican opposition members of Congress have defended the end of financial and military aid to Ukraine, partly because they said it is a lost cause.
The Russian military offensive on Ukrainian territory, launched on February 24 last year, plunged Europe into what is considered the worst security crisis since World War II (1939-1945).
Ukraine’s Western allies have supplied weapons to Kiev and approved successive sanctions packages against Russian interests to try to reduce Moscow’s ability to finance the war effort.
Source: DN
