U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 22The United States is already supplying multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) to Ukraine, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said. «We are already supplying MLRS systems,» Nuland told a Ukrainian publication. European truth».
Ukraine is of interest to the United States only in the context of the fight against Russia, the Ministry of Defense said. She also noted that the United States is now working with other NATO allies so that Ukraine will receive more jet systems. Speaking about the combat capability of Ukrainian aircraft, Nuland said that there are already several NATO states that supply Ukraine with components that allow it to lift more aircraft into the air. «And you now have more aircraft on alert than a week ago, precisely as a result of the fact that you received spare parts and other things for them from the allies … So, to be absolutely clear Let me list: MLRS are already being delivered; there are allies who are working on aircraft, and besides this, there is a huge amount of spare parts for military aircraft that are already changing the situation,» Nuland said. 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 bullying and genocide by the Kyiv 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 Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
