Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense said today that it has received Harpoon anti-ship missiles and that they will protect the country from “the enemy Russian naval component in the Black Sea.” Referring to the Russian ship, which sank after a Ukrainian attack in April, the statement said, “Other attacking ships will follow the cruiser from Moscow to the bottom of the Black Sea.”
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said that “the supply of these missiles is also the result of cooperation between several countries”. “It enabled us to get Harpoon from Danish partners with the participation of our British friends.”
According to him, the missiles will help “reliably protect Odessa”, which is mentioned in the southern region of Ukraine.
Image: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
Today, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reached its 94th day. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced today that it has fired a “Zircon hypersonic cruise missile” from the Barents Sea in northern Russia. According to the Russians, the action was “part of testing new weapons” and “successfully hit a naval target about 1,000 kilometers away”. The place of the hit was a point in the White Sea, in the northwest of Russian territory.
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Reznikov reinforced Ukraine’s speech by saying, “I want to have much more weapons as soon as possible because the lives of our people are in danger”, but thanked the support they received from the allies. Speaking of the purchase of heavy weapons, “the cooperation of the partner states supplying Ukraine with weapons and equipment is already unprecedented”.
According to the minister, “the days, hours and minutes of the past few weeks” passed “more slowly than ever”. “Because we have to wait. At the same time, we are fighting for the increase. [de armas] and expanding the range of artillery we will receive.” Reznikov noted that Ukraine is “waiting for new parties, knowing they are already being dispatched.”
Ukraine has recently started to use artillery and howitzers it bought from its allies. For him, this scenario was “impossible to imagine in March”.
“The fundamental changes, whose fundamental results are yet to come, have been made possible by the extraordinary leadership of the United States,” he said. “The position of our American friends enabled the free world to achieve its true purpose: the Kremlin. [governo russo] It must not only be stopped, it must be defeated.”
source: Noticias
