US concedes delayed arms delivery left Ukraine vulnerable to Russian attacks near Kharkiv | ABC News
senior us officials have acknowledged the delay of American weapons have made Ukraine more vulnerable to Russia’s attacks on the front line but they insist help is on the way the US Secretary of State has made a surprise visit to the Ukrainian Capital almost a week after Moscow launched a significant ground incursion in the Northeast Russia has stepped up its military campaign to take advantage of Ukraine’s severe shortages of personnel and artillery shells while the US has approved a 92 billion weapons package for Ukraine little has been made to the battlefield but Anthony blinkin has urged Ukraine to hold the line saying the military aid will soon make a big difference Putin is ramping up yet another offensive against Ukraine in harke and across the East sending wave after wave of Russian soldiers Iranian drones North Korean artillery and tanks missiles and fighter jets built with machines and Par s supplied by China the coming weeks and months will demand a great deal of ukrainians who have already sacrific so much but I have come to Ukraine with a message you are not alone for months Russia has been making modest gains in the Eastern donet region it’s now launched the significant assault in the hake region outnumbering keev soldiers and allowing the Kremlin to take Villages around the Border town of V Chans thousands of people have fled with whatever they can from the new Northeast Battle Zone many have been describing the fierce fighting that’s taking place a bomb hit my house 3 days ago it’s completely destroyed only after 3 days we managed to leave we lived in the basement for several days with our cat not only did people flee to the basement but cats too it’s scary very scary especially when something flies over our head and it hars we heard an airplane it flew and dropped bombs on us Ukraine says a highrise residential building was hit by a series of Russian air strikes in hak injuring more than a dozen people the regional Governor says attacks on Ukraine’s second largest city have become more intense with the President Vladimir zalinsky accusing Moscow of seeking to reduce the liberated City to Rubble under constant attack Ukrainian troops are being forced to take shelter from the Russian Advance an estimated 30,000 Kremlin soldiers are making it across the border keev is directing more resources to the Northeast in response determined to hold back the Invaders confident the support from the West will come the next two months will be the most difficult for the Ukrainian Defense Forces but after these two months we will have a completely different situation on the battlefield in a number of directions the Tactical Instinct will be fully intercepted on the side of Ukraine in Moscow the Russian President Vladimir Putin has chaed the first meeting of his new government he’s made some key changes and the most significant is replacing his Ally and long- serving defense minister with an economics expert as the cost continues to mount from Russia’s war in Ukraine
US officials have condeded the delay delivery of a weapons package has left Ukraine exposed to Russian attacks. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Kyiv to assure Ukraine is ‘not alone’ in its resistance of Russian advances in the country’s north eastern region of Kharkiv.
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