The White House announced this Thursday that the United States will deliver “important” defense means to Ukraine, but without currently providing the long-range ATACMS missiles requested by kyiv.
The President of the United States “has decided that he will not provide [mísseis] ATACMS, but does not exclude this possibility in the future,” national security advisor Jack Sullivan said at a press 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 counteroffensive, criticized by several US military personnel who have spoken to the media anonymously.
“Actually, Ukraine is in the process of recovering ground, it is doing it methodically, step by step,” he said.
Joe Biden’s advisor stated that, thanks in particular to US military aid, Ukrainian forces were able to “liberate more territory in three months than the Russians were able to take in eight months.”
“Several large cities in Ukraine are not under Russian occupation or rule today. First of all, because of the courage of the Ukrainian soldiers and the Ukrainian people who support them, but also, and not in a negligible way, because of the military support that we provide them “, said. .Jack Sullivan.
Several congressmen from the Republican opposition have defended the end of financial and military aid to Ukraine, considering, among other arguments, that it is a lost cause.
The Russian military offensive on Ukrainian territory, launched on February 24 of last year, plunged Europe into what is considered the most serious security crisis since the Second World War (1939-1945).
Ukraine’s Western allies have supplied weapons to kyiv and passed successive sanctions packages against Russian interests to try to diminish Moscow’s ability to finance the war effort.
Source: TSF
