The United States and its allies have promised to send more heavy weaponry to Ukraine during talks at a German airbase, brushing off a threat from Moscow that their support for Kyiv could lead to nuclear war:
A Ukrainian serviceman walks amid the rubble of a building heavily damaged by multiple Russian bombardments near a frontline in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday, 25 April, 2022.The United States and its allies promised to send more heavy weaponry to Ukraine during talks at a German airbase on Tuesday, brushing off a threat from Moscow that their support for Kyiv could lead to nuclear war.
One of President Vladimir Putin's closest allies, Nikolai Patrushev, said Ukraine was spiralling towards a collapse into "several states" due to what he cast as a US attempt to use Kyiv to undermine Russia. His comments seemed to be an effort to blame Washington for any break-up of Ukraine that emerges from the war, now in its third month.
US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, believe Russia will rely heavily on artillery strikes to pound Ukrainian positions while moving in ground forces from several directions to try to envelop and wipe out much of Ukraine's military. Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters while flying to Tuesday's meeting in Germany that the next few weeks in Ukraine would be "very, very critical".In a possible sign of the conflict spreading, Ukraine accused Russia of trying to drag neighbouring Moldova's breakaway region of Transdniestria into its war on Kyiv after authorities in the Moscow-backed territory said they had been targeted by a series of attacks.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said no corridors were operating on Tuesday due to continued fighting.
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