The meeting and a new package of weapons, including artillery and ammunition, is intended in part by the Biden administration to blunt criticism that it is not doing enough for Ukraine and is too hesitant to send long-range weapon systems. 2 Pentagon official met in Washington on Wednesday with America’s largest military contractors to discuss how ready they are to restock supplies and what new capabilities to send to Ukraine. Like Slovakia, other countries are also steadily expanding the scope of their military aid. Blinken said that China is strongly considering giving military aid to Russia, a move that would transform the war into a struggle involving three superpowers. Portending a Global Rift: Secretary of State Antony J.In the North : A different sort of war game is playing out in northern Ukraine, where Russian shelling is tying up thousands of Ukrainian troops that might otherwise defend against attacks farther south.
Putin announced that Russia would suspend its participation in the New START nuclear arms control treaty - the last major such agreement remaining with the United States. But the trip was also the first of several direct challenges to President Vladimir V. Biden Visits Kyiv: President Biden traveled covertly to the besieged Ukrainian capital, hoping to demonstrate American resolve and boost shellshocked Ukrainians.Putin of Russia vows to fight the war to its “full completion” and his forces regroup for an expected push in Ukraine’s east, NATO countries, including the United States, are scrambling to keep the weapons flowing and bulk up the country’s defenses. It carried an air defense system made up of 48 surface-to-air missiles, four launchers and radars to guide the rockets to their targets, which in Ukraine means Russian warplanes and missiles.Īs President Vladimir V. Csoma’s drive home was not only unusually long but also signaled a singular escalation in Western efforts to help Ukraine defend itself. “It was a very long train, much longer than usual,” recalled Mikulas Csoma, the mayor of Dobra, a previously sleepy village in eastern Slovakia that, over the past month, has become a key artery funneling weapons and ammunition into Ukraine by rail from the West. But the flatbed wagons, stacked high with military equipment, just kept coming. DOBRA, Slovakia - Driving back to his village near the Ukrainian border last Thursday, the mayor had to stop to let a train pass, and assumed he wouldn’t have to wait long.
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