Russia is no longer short of precision-guided weapons, – Pentagon/Channel 24 Collage
The Russian military is having difficulty resupplying precision-guided munitions. The United States is confident that sanctions against the aggressor state are already in place and hit the defense complex the hardest.
This was announced at a briefing by a senior Pentagon official. The sanctions had a big impact on export controls, especially for electronic components.
Russians hit Mariupol with unguided bombs
We saw that they used a lot of precision weapons. They continue to hit Mariupol with a bunch of unguided bombs. Consequently, they are having problems replenishing precision-guided munitions,” the Pentagon spokesman explained.
Meanwhile, the United States is actively supplying weapons to Ukraine, as well as other partner countries. So just for the previous day, Ukrainians received 13 deliveries with weapons. Additional military support has been requested by President Joe Biden. We are talking about 5 billion dollars.
The US hopes to agree on additional military support as early as May
We would like to agree on this before the third week of May, so that be able to continue support uninterrupted,” said a Pentagon spokesman.
The US Department of Defense said that they had already delivered most of the declared howitzers of Ukraine and more than a hundred thousand shells in them. Currently, the Ukrainian military is undergoing intensive exercises on the use of new weapons.
The Russian military “have not made much progress”
The Pentagon has not seen any significant advancement of the Russian military over the past 24 hours. There are also no signs that Russia will be mobilized and more forces will be gathered.
Biden signed the historic Lend-Lease law: in short
- On the evening of May 9, the President of the United States Joe Biden signed the law on Lend-Lease for Ukraine.
- The head of the White House stressed that Lend-Lease was used during World War II, but now Europe needs it no less.
- Po According to Biden, lend-lease is costly, but “hiding from Russia is even more costly.”
- In response, President Zelensky thanked his American counterpart and called this step historic.
- According to the prime minister Minister Denis Shmygal, Lend-Lease will make it possible to make the supply of weapons unlimited.
