U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. File photoWASHINGTON, Mar 9 The emergence of the Iron Dome missile defense system in Ukraine would require a lot of preparation and training, the US is considering other ways of military assistance, said Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.
"I will say only about the "Iron Dome" system. You can't just snap your fingers to make it appear, it requires training, the ability to replace and other things. But there are other things on your list and theirs that we think we can do,” Nuland said at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
She noted that a more detailed answer would require the meeting to be moved in a closed format, promising to provide such information in a secret mode. Nuland noted that Ukraine has been provided with a large number of anti-battery radars. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President emphasized. The Russian Foreign Ministry has repeatedly said that the West is pumping Ukraine with the latest weapons. us, the one with us: Russia announced the list of unfriendly countries