Loading ammunition for shipment to Ukraine at Dover Air Force Base. File photoWASHINGTON, May 28.U.S. artillery systems approved for delivery to Kyiv, including multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), are expected to arrive in Ukraine within weeks, the Wall Street Journal wrote on Friday, citing unnamed sources. According to them, President Joe Biden's administration As early as next week, it intends to announce the allocation of a new aid package, which, among other things, will include American MLRS. These systems, according to sources, are capable of hitting “tens of miles further than any artillery mount that Ukraine currently has at its disposal.” In addition, the new aid package will also include HIMARS systems, which have approximately the same missile launch range, but move on wheeled chassis. The interlocutors did not disclose how many pieces of equipment the United States plans to supply to Ukraine as part of a new aid package, but it is expected to arrive in the coming weeks. In addition, Washington expects that it will take at least one week to train Ukrainian troops in the use of new types of weapons. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Friday that the United States has not yet made a final decision on the supply of MLRS to Ukraine. The American media write that the Biden administration does not officially announce this so as not to provoke an escalation of tensions with Russia. Tochki-U» in the granary of Seversk in the DNRRussia 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. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any cargo that contains weapons for Ukraine, become a legitimate target for Russia. 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. >May 18, 08:00 american generosity. How Ukraine will pay for US military assistance
