Moscow complains about US military aid as Washington promises more support, including advanced weapons
Russia should be “weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine”, the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said after he and the secretary of state,The direct comment came a few hours after the two senior US figures met Ukraine’s president,– and was followed by Russia making an official diplomatic complaint about American arms supplies.
Lloyd Austin and Antony Blinken at their meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in Kyiv.Tony Blinken, the secretary of state, added that the US had put in place a strategy of “massive support for Ukraine, massive pressure against Russia” across Nato members. It was “having real results” he said, adding: “And we’re seeing that when it comes to Russia’s war aims, Russia is failing, Ukraine is succeeding.
Of the latest package, $322m consists of direct funding to Ukraine for its war effort, while the balance is for other Nato members to reinforce them after having supplied their own arms to Kyiv during the first phase of fighting. Russia is planning a “staged referendum” in the southern city of Kherson aimed at justifying its occupation, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has said in its latest intelligence report. “The city is key to Russia’s objective of establishing a land bridge to Crimea and dominating southern Ukraine,” the MoD said.
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