Ukrainian army soldiers walk along the highway on the outskirts of the city of Nikolaev. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 2The New York Times, citing an unnamed US official, reports that Washington and its allies intend to facilitate the transfer of Soviet-made tanks to Ukraine. According to the representative, the US decided to act as an intermediary in response to the request of Vladimir Zelensky. The transfer process should begin soon, but the newspaper's interlocutor declined to say how many tanks there would be and from which countries they would come. The spokesman said the tanks would allow Ukraine to carry out «long-range artillery strikes against Russian targets in the Donbass». 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. .jpg» />The United States will allocate $300 million in additional military assistance to UkraineAccording to the statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation as of March 31, since the beginning of the operation, 81% of Ukrainian military aircraft (124 out of 152), 75% of tanks and other armored vehicles (1815 out of 2416), half of the helicopter fleet have been destroyed (77 out of 149) and so on. According to the head of the department, Sergei Shoigu, the Air Force and Air Defense of Ukraine «are practically destroyed», and the Navy «ceased to exist.» people». NATO countries faced an unexpected problem
