Volodymyr Zelenskyy demonstrated that Ukraine had used U. S. -supplied long-range missiles on the battlefield.
Earlier, an anonymous U. S. official said the ATCAMS had arrived and been used by Russian forces (see message at 4:32 p. m. ).
While some versions of missiles have a range of 180 miles, those sent to Ukraine have a shorter range and bring cluster munitions that, when fired, open in the air, releasing more small bombs than a single warhead.
U. S. long-range ballistic missiles have been quietly delivered to Ukraine and are being used on the battlefield opposed to Russia, an official in charge of the matter said.
The revelation comes just a month after Joe Biden promised them to Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The delivery of the missiles to the front was kept secret, with the hope that the first public popularity would come when the missiles were used on the battlefield.
Zelensky and other Ukrainian leaders have insisted that the U. S. obtain the military tactical missile system, known as ATACMS, but the U. S. has resisted for months, fearing Kyiv could simply use the weapons to strike deep into Russian territory, angering Moscow and escalating the conflict. .
Biden accepted the delivery last month and told him he would do so. Zelenskyy told a White House briefing that the United States would deliver ATACMS to Ukraine, according to officials at the time.
The U. S. , however, declined to elaborate on when or how many missiles would be delivered, even though officials recommended the plan to send about two dozen.
Due to lingering considerations in Washington about escalating tensions with Russia, the ATACMS edition sent to Ukraine will have a shorter distance than the maximum the missiles can have.
While some versions of missiles can reach a range of 180 miles, those sent to Ukraine have a shorter range and bring cluster munitions that, when fired, are fired into the air, releasing more small bombs than a single warhead.
He left the Kremlin in 2020.
Surkov commented on the investigation.
Officials from the United States, South Korea and Japan met to discuss North Korea’s engagement with Russia, adding that arms transfers that the three allied countries say violate U. N. Security Council resolutions, the U. S. State Department said.
At a trilateral assembly in Jakarta, the three representatives also “raised considerations about reports of forced repatriations of North Koreans from” China, the branch said.
For context: Last Friday, the White House said North Korea had recently sent Russia a shipment of weapons, calling it a troubling fact.
And last month, Rishi Sunak’s spokesman said Britain was urging the DPRK to halt arms talks with Russia.
The Kremlin has rejected Western claims that North Korea is supplying them with weapons.
The southern port region of Kherson has been mentioned several times in our coverage.
So let’s take a look at the domain and why it’s important.
At the beginning of the war, Kherson fell to Russian forces and was later annexed.
Russian forces came under great pressure to protect Kherson in the early months of the war, but in November last year, Ukrainian troops managed to liberate the city of Kherson.
Russian officials said at the time that their forces had withdrawn from the city to save the lives of Russian soldiers.
Parts of the Kherson region remain under Russian occupation, but Ukrainian troops are trying to push them back.
The Kherson region is strategic as it borders Crimea and is a land bridge between Russia and the Black Sea peninsula.
If Ukraine succeeds in regaining control, Russia will be disadvantaged from this land bridge.
The domain also supplies new water.
Three young Ukrainians detained on Russian territory in Kherson have been reunited with their parents after a rescue mission, according to authorities.
The Ministry of Reintegration wrote on Telegram that after spending 19 months under Russian occupation, the three children, aged nine, 10 and 14, had been repatriated.
“A real opportunity to repatriate the young people arose in early September this year, when their father appealed to the Ministry of Reintegration, and the ministry, in turn, involved the Ukrainian Network for Children’s Rights in the process,” he said.
The latest report comes a day after an official told Reuters that three more young Ukrainians brought to Russia were due to be handed over this week to Qatari diplomats in Moscow.
Qatar created the program with the aim of repatriating young people from Russia to Ukraine after months of secret negotiations with Moscow and Kyiv, according to the official.
The war in Ukraine has seen a number of outlandish claims emerge from Russia and its state media.
And today, a clip shared through BBC journalist Francis Scarr and Russian commentator Ruslan Kurbanov claims that British intelligence oversaw Hamas’ attack on Israel.
In an excerpt from a Russian TV program, Kurbanov says he “does not rule out the option that the entire Hamas attack was monitored over a very long period and in a very sophisticated way through British intelligence agencies. “
It claims that British intelligence “has encouraged Iran to boost and prepare Hamas” and adds that it will have to do so in order to “dislodge the United States from the region. “
It should be noted here that there is no evidence about Mr. Kurbanov.
And last week, the UK deployed the army to the eastern Mediterranean to bolster regional stability and prevent escalation.
In the final moments, Xi Jinping greeted Vladimir Putin in a rite at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing.
The Russian president’s scale underscores China’s aid to Moscow in its war in Ukraine, as well as Russia’s aid to China’s attempt to expand its economic and diplomatic influence abroad.
The two countries have also forged a casual alliance opposed to the United States and democratic countries.