US HIMARS highly mobile rocket and artillery systems. File photoMOSCOW, June 2.U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink said that Washington will not regulate the firing range of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems that will be supplied to Ukraine.
"We are talking about yesterday assistance package for 700 million dollars, including HIMARS systems… The Ukrainian side will regulate the distance at which they will shoot,” she said at a briefing in Kyiv. fire HIMARS on Ukraine, provided that they will not be used to strike at Russia. Volodymyr Zelensky publicly confirmed the existence of such an agreement. At the same time, Verkhovna Rada deputy Yegor Chernev allowed the shelling of Russian facilities. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, commenting on Zelensky’s words, noted that Moscow does not have a credit of confidence in Kyiv, since the head of the Ukrainian state did not fulfill a single promise to peacefully resolve the conflict in Donbass .Russia has been conducting a special military operation since February 24 to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The army has already completed the main task of the first stage — it significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal of the operation in the military department was called the liberation of Donbass.