US President Joe Biden. File photoWASHINGTON, May 6.US President Joe Biden on Friday evening announced an additional military aid package for Ukraine, which includes artillery ammunition, radars and other equipment. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any cargo that contains weapons for Ukraine would become a legitimate target for Russia. The Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation stated that the NATO countries are «playing with fire» by supplying weapons to Ukraine. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov noted that pumping Ukraine with weapons from the West does not contribute to the success of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations and will have a negative effect. munitions, radars and other equipment,” the head of state wrote in a statement released by the White House. “With today’s announcement (on military assistance), my administration has almost exhausted the funding that can be used to send security assistance to Ukraine… Congress must quickly provide the (administration) requested funding to strengthen Ukraine's position on the battlefield and at the negotiating table,» the US president 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.
