Washington will provide Ukrainians with advanced rocket launcher systems

A senior White House official said in a press interview that it was HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System), meaning multiple rocket launchers mounted on light armor.

He said that the equipment sent to the Ukrainian army will have a range of about 80 kilometers.

Therefore, it is not a question of very remote systems, which are several hundred kilometers, as the Americans also have.

This equipment is part of a new broader portion of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine, totaling $ 700 million, details of which will be provided on Wednesday.

Indicates that he wants to be Ukraine in the strongest possible position in the event of negotiations with Russia, the American president told him: we do not encourage Ukraine and we do not give Ukraine a way to strike outside its borders.

Joe Biden has always been concerned since the battle began not to provide weapons that, according to him, would put the United States in a co-belligerent position alongside the Ukrainians.

In his gallery at New York TimesThe Democratic President also assured, at a time when the Ukrainian army was facing an intense Russian offensive in the east of the country, that he will not force the Ukrainian government, private or public, to make concessions on the territory.

40 billion dollars worth of weapons

Russian forces have a stated goal of controlling the entire large mining basin of Donbass, which pro-Russian separatist forces backed by Moscow took partial control in 2014.

They seized a large part of the strategic city of Sievierodonetsk on Tuesday.

Ukrainians have long called for more rocket launchers that would allow them to hit Russian positions deep while putting their batteries ahead.

The American Congress recently released a huge new envelope, worth 40 billion dollars, to finance armament shipments to Ukraine.