The new package of U.S. military aid, expected to be announced as soon as this week, would nearly double the firing range of Ukrainian forces
Two U.S. officials said a new $2-billion package of military aid to be announced as soon as this week would for the first time include Ground Launched Small Diameter Bombs , a new weapon designed by Boeing.
for the first time, a breakthrough in support aimed at giving Kyiv the capability to recapture occupied territory this year. Troops were fighting building to building in Bakhmut for gains of barely 100 metres a night, and the city was coming under constant Russian shelling, a soldier in a Ukrainian unit of Belarusian volunteers told Reuters from inside the city. Russian forces were manoeuvring to try to surround it.
The parliamentary leader of Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, David Arakhamia, confirmed on Wednesday that raids were under way at the homes of billionaire Ihor Kolomoiskiy and former Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. Reuters was not immediately able to reach either of them for comment. Zelensky, who first came to fame as star of a hit sitcom on Kolomoiskiy’s TV station, fended off allegations early in his presidency that he would shield the businessman.
The West has so far refused to send weapons that could be used to attack deep inside Russia for fear of starting a wider conflict. Moscow nonetheless says Western pledges of weapons mean it is effectively at war with NATO.
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