
US HIMARS highly mobile rocket and artillery systems. Archive photoBAKU, 4 Jun. Kyiv understands that the use of American HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems to attack Russian territory will stop the flow of weapons to Ukraine, famous American diplomat Matthew Bryza told RIA Novosti.
"There are strong trusting ties between the governments of the United States and Ukraine, and Washington is confident that Ukraine will not use these missiles on Russian territory", he explained.
The diplomat also expressed confidence that Moscow was not going to use the provision of HIMARS systems to Kyiv as a «pretext to inflame the conflict.» This week, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl said that the new package of US military assistance to Ukraine includes four HIMARS systems capable of the transferred equipment to hit targets at a distance of up to 80 kilometers. confirmed that Kyiv will comply with Washington's demand and will not use new weapons against Moscow. At the same time, Verkhovna Rada deputy Yegor Chernev did not rule out strikes with US-supplied missiles on Russian territory. Press Secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov noted that Russia does not have a credit of confidence in the Ukrainian side, because Kyiv had not previously fulfilled a single promise to peacefully resolve the conflict in Donbass. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.»
14:05InfographicMap of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine on 04.06.2022

