Discussions and consultations continue in the West on providing Ukraine with aviation and long-range missiles, in particular, ATACMS. So far, the final decision has not been made.
Given the current situation at the front, it is important for Ukraine to obtain, first of all, exactly one of these types of weapons. Alexander Kovalenko, a military-political observer of the Information Resistance group, told about this Channel 24.
In his opinion, if you make a choice between fighters and ATACMS missiles, then getting ATACMS is more important today for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“GLSDB is also needed to use both of these missiles in combination,” the observer believes.
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Missiles can be received in 2 weeks
He stressed that now it is possible to discuss aviation, but one must understand that this issue will be resolved in the future. An urgent problem that we can solve today with the timely transfer of appropriate weapons is precisely ATACMS.
According to him, due to aviation, many complications will arise related to technical, infrastructural components, training the required number of pilots, etc. e.
And we can get rockets in 2 weeks or a month. And they will significantly strengthen our capabilities to prepare counteroffensive actions and activate them,” Kovalenko noted.
According to the military-political observer, the ATACMS issue has been resolved for a very long time.
“I do not exclude that if we do not receive the F-16 aircraft, then tomorrow we may have long-range missiles. This may be a temporary solution to this issue, but it still does not change the fact that the discussion on aviation supplies will continue and quite intensively,” Alexander Kovalenko summed up.
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Delivery of long-range missiles to Ukraine: what is known
- Our military is in dire need of long-range missiles to destroy the warehouses of the occupiers at a distance. However, the United States is delaying the delivery of these weapons. According to Russian publicist Andrey Piontkovsky, because the United States is afraid of Russia's weakness. After all, in case of defeat in the war, a civil war will begin on a large territory of the aggressor country.
- U.S. Senator Michael McCall noted that Ukraine needs ATACMS long-range tactical missiles. With their help, it will be possible to hit the military facilities of the occupiers in Crimea and the places of concentration of Iranian drones.
- The head of the Center for Military Legal Studies, Alexander Musienko, believes that the United States may transfer long-range missiles to Ukraine in one of the subsequent aid packages. rockets. In his opinion, a flexible form will be found in which Ukraine will strike at military targets of the invaders. We are talking primarily about the occupied territories of Ukraine.
