The president of the United States, Joe Biden, announced that his country will send more support to Ukraine through advanced missile systems to Ukraine to launch attacks with greater precision.
“I have decided that we will provide the Ukrainians with more advanced missile and ammunition systems that will allow them to strike key targets more accurately on the battlefield,” Biden wrote in a late-breaking op-ed in The New York Times.
A government official explained in a call with the media that the United States will provide a long-range missile system as part of a new package of 700 million dollars in weapons.
According to the source, the new shipment of weapons will include the so-called “High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems” (HIMARS) High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, which will allow more precise attacks on targets from a greater distance.
E In this sense, the official specified that this system will be used against Russian systems and that they will not be used within Russian territory.
In an article entitled “What the United States will and will not do in Ukraine ”, Biden defends a diplomatic solution to the conflict, but warns that “each negotiation reflects the facts on the ground”.
For this reason, he insists: “We have acted quickly to send Ukraine a significant amount of weapons and ammunition so that it can fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.”
The president specifies that they will continue to provide Ukraine with advanced weapons: “Including Javelin anti-tank missiles, Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, powerful artillery systems and precision rockets, radars, unmanned aerial vehicles, Mi-17 and ammunition”.
In the letter, Biden also stresses that he will continue to cooperate with his partners and allies for the imposition of sanctions on Russia in retaliation for its invasion and which it describes as “the toughest ever imposed on a large economy”.
He also assures that he will address the food crisis aggravated by the Russian invasion and that the United States will help its European partners and others to “reduce its dependence on Russian fossil fuels and to accelerate” the transition to clean energy.
Biden insists in the article that although his country will continue “reinforcing the eastern flank of NATO with forces and capabilities of the United States and other allies”, he does not seek a war between Russia and the Atlantic organization, nor to overthrow the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
“As much as he does not agree with the Mr. Putin, and who considers your actions an outrage, the United States will not try to bring about your overthrow in Moscow,” he wrote before noting that if US troops are not attacked , the United States will not become directly involved in the conflict.
Furthermore, he stressed that his country is not encouraging or allowing Ukraine to attack beyond its borders and that it will not pressure kyiv to make territorial concessions.
He also commented that despite From Moscow’s “occasional rhetoric” about the possible use of nuclear weapons, which it described as “dangerous and extremely irresponsible”, Washington has seen “no indication that Russia intends to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine”.