Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and awaiting approval by the U.S. Senate makes it clear that Ukraine will receive the long-range version of the Atakums (Army Tactical Missile System) that it has long sought. .. The Atakumus is highly regarded by the Ukrainian military for its firepower, speed of deployment, and accuracy, but Ukraine has so far been limited to a version that can only fire to a range of 165 km (102 miles). The new version can fire approximately 300km. Atacms can be launched from the similarly acclaimed Himars system, which the United States already supplies to Ukraine.
A White House statement said Biden told Zelensky: “As soon as the national security supplement is passed by the Senate and signed by the president, the administration will take critical steps to meet Ukraine’s urgent battlefield and air defense needs.” “We will promptly provide a new security assistance package.”. Zelenskiy said in a phone call Monday that he thanked U.S. President Joe Biden for his support and leadership.
Rishi Sunak has warned that President Vladimir Putin will “not stop at Poland’s borders” if Russia wins the war, pledging Britain’s biggest ever military aid package for Ukraine. Britain will provide Kiev with vital equipment, including 400 vehicles, 1,600 weapons and 4 million rounds of ammunition, as well as an additional £500 million in military funding, bringing the total to £3 billion this year. It is planned to become.
European ministers said they were urgently considering ways to strengthen air defenses to Ukraine, but failed to make any concrete commitments. Supplying the Patriot system that Kiev values most. At a meeting in Luxembourg, the EU’s foreign and defense ministers said the US House of Representatives vote over the weekend on approving the Ukraine aid package should not lead to any complacency on the EU side. Germany is the only EU member state to have pledged additional batteries since Kiev began its push for more Patriots in recent weeks. Officials said it would be difficult for countries to part with patriots because they are an essential part of national defense.
A Russian missile attack that destroyed half of a 240-meter-tall TV tower in Kharkiv on Monday was part of a deliberate effort by the Russian government to make Ukraine’s second-largest city uninhabitable, Volodymyr says. Zelenskiy said.. The northeastern city of 1.3 million people is 30 km (18 miles) from the Russian border. Telecommunications officials said they were working to restore TV signals and urged residents in cities and areas without digital TV signals to turn to cable, online TV and radio.
The Ukrainian military said it still held the village of Novomikhailivka, 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, which Russian troops claimed to have captured earlier. Russia announced on Sunday that its forces had captured territory near the main battlefield of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine and captured the small village of Bogdanivka, less than 3 kilometers northeast of the town.
In the face of Russia’s military buildup in Belarus and Kaliningrad, Poland is ready to accept nuclear weapons if NATO decides to deploy them, Polish President Andrzej Duda announced on Monday. said in an interview.. “If our allies decide to deploy nuclear weapons on our territory to strengthen the eastern flank of NATO as part of nuclear sharing, we are prepared to do so,” Duda said in an interview published in the daily Fact newspaper. “There is,” he said.
