US to Send Ukraine Advanced Rockets; Kyiv Promises Not to Fire Into Russia

[rebewranger]

US to Send Ukraine Advanced Rockets; Kyiv Promises Not to Fire Into Russia

The fourth large arms package announced by the administration includes HIMARS for defensive use only, as Biden eyes “negotiating table.”
TARA COPP | MAY 31, 2022 09:53 PM ET
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The United States plans to send Ukraine advanced long-range artillery that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had requested for weeks, but Biden administration officials said would only be armed with limited-range munitions and would not be used to strike targets inside of Russia.

White House officials on Tuesday announced that the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, would be part of new $700 million arms package for Ukraine, which has received increasingly more advanced and lethal weapons to fight Russia’s invasion.

“At this time, we've decided not to provide the longer range of munitions,” a senior administration official said.

On Monday, President Joe Biden told reporters that his administration will “not…send to Ukraine rocket systems that can strike into Russia,” according to a White House pool report.

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2022/05/us-sending-ukraine-advanced-rockets-kyiv-promises-not-fire-russia/367588/

[rebewranger]

Biden was actually against it before he was for it.

[Smokin Joe]

The second those resupply trains cross the border, let 'em have it.

[The_Reader_David]

Quite frankly, I don't think we should be expecting any promise not to fire into Russia.  There should be regular strikes on supply infrastructure and other military targets in their rear area, whether that is in Donbas, Crimea, Belgorod or anywhere else Ukraine can reach with whatever we give them.  Don't forget while Ukraine and the US regard firing on targets in Crimea as firing on targets on occupied territory, Russia will regard it as firing on targets in Russia, so why not include their supply hub in Belgorod on the target list?  (And take out Putin's bridge over the Kerch Strait.)