The dome of the US Capitol in Washington. File photo WASHINGTON, Oct 12 US Senate Armed Services Committee Co-Chair Jack Reed compared the current situation around Ukraine to the Caribbean crisis, Politico writes. «We are in a situation that we have not seen since the Caribbean crisis,» — Reid said in an interview with Politico. The newspaper notes that the senator's statement followed the speech of US President Joe Biden, who said that the conflict in Ukraine is fraught with «Armageddon.» The senator also believes that the Americans should do everything possible to «protect the airspace of Ukraine.» In addition, according to the publication, Michael McCall, a member of the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, said that in response to Russian precision strikes on Ukrainian military command posts , energy infrastructure and communications, the US should immediately send «longer-range artillery and additional air defense systems» to Ukraine. The newspaper also reports that Jim Rish, a member of the US Senate International Committee, offered to send combat aircraft to Kyiv. Biden said at a Democratic party event on October 6 that the world was facing «the prospect of Armageddon» for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. He said he knew his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin well enough to know that he «isn't joking when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons.» Earlier, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that people who talk about nuclear escalation are acting irresponsibly. warned Kyiv, media write
