Pentagon. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 22The Pentagon has received and will consider an appeal from a group of congressmen calling for the deployment of US field hospitals near the border with Ukraine to help the inhabitants of this country, said military spokesman John Kirby. «We certainly we will look into the letter from these members of Congress, take it seriously and respond appropriately, but I have nothing to report on any concrete plans yet,» he said at the briefing. /5ec6d547d5ca10e1ba13532d0d4af40c.jpg» />Pentagon announces deadline for military aid to UkraineMore than a dozen congressmen wrote Friday to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken urging them to set up field hospitals in Poland, provide Ukraine with armored ambulances and begin treating the sick and wounded Ukrainians in an American clinic in Germany. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
