Western allies moved toward supplying armoured battle vehicles to Ukraine, while Washington predicted intense combat would continue for months on the eastern frontline
French President Emmanuel Macron told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy his government would send light AMX-10 RCto help its war effort, a French official said on Wednesday after a phone call between them.
Biden's move, however, would fall short of sending the Abrams tanks that Ukraine has sought. Kyiv has repeatedly asked Western allies for heavier fighting vehicles such as the Abrams and German-made Leopard tanks. "The fighting is still quite hot ... I think what we're seeing in Bakhmut we should expect to see elsewhere along the front that there will be continued fighting in the coming months."
Asked whether attacks on Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, Budanov said: "Crimea is part of Ukraine, it's part of our territory. We can use any weapon on our territory."The United States is preparing another weapons aid package which could be announced in the coming days on top of about $21.3 billion in security assistance so far to Ukraine.
In a signal to the West that Russia will not back down over Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putina frigate on Wednesday to the Atlantic Ocean armed with new generation hypersonic cruise missiles, which can travel at more than five times the speed of sound.
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