1h ago
07.25
Russia claims latest US weapons package is
‘direct provocation’
The US earlier confirmed it will send Ukraine four
sophisticated, medium-range rocket systems and ammunition to help try to stall
Russian progress in the Donbas region.
The
medium-range high mobility artillery rocket systems are part of a new $700m
tranche of security assistance that also includes helicopters, Javelin
anti-tank weapon systems, radars, tactical vehicles, spare parts and more. It
will take at least three weeks to get the precision weapons and trained troops
onto the battlefield, the Pentagon said.
Ukraine
promised Washington it will not use the rocket systems to hit targets inside
Russian territory.
However,
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said the supply of US advanced rocket
systems to Ukraine increases the risk of a “third country” being dragged into
the conflict. Lavrov’s deputy, Sergei Ryabkov, said that Moscow viewed US
military aid to Ukraine “extremely negatively” and that it would increase the
risk of a direct confrontation.
Kremlin
spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters:
We believe that the United States is purposefully
and diligently adding fuel to the fire.”
Lavrov later told a news conference in Saudi
Arabia:
It is a direct provocation (by Ukraine), aimed at
involving the West in military action.”
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