By TARA COPP and MATTHEW LEE, Related Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is getting ready to ship Ukraine a further $725 million in navy help, together with counter-drone methods and munitions for its Excessive Mobility Artillery Rocket System, which might point out extra of the longer-range missiles are headed to the battlefield.
Two U.S. officers, who spoke on the situation of anonymity to debate the bundle earlier than it was introduced, didn’t affirm whether or not the munitions for the HIMARS are the coveted ATACMS — the Military Tactical Missile System. However Ukraine has been urgent for extra of the longer-range missiles to strike extra targets inside Russia.
The bundle additionally consists of extra of the anti-personnel land mines that Ukraine is relying on to gradual Russian and North Korean floor forces in Russia’s Kursk area.
There’s widespread hypothesis about what the brand new Trump administration will imply for Ukraine because the incoming president has promised to finish the battle. In a serious shift, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signaled on Friday that an a suggestion of NATO membership to territory beneath Kyiv’s management might finish “the hot stage of the war.”
