- US to ship $400 million in army help to Ukraine
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US to ship $400 million in army help to Ukraine
The US will ship one other $400 million (€393 million) in army gear to Ukraine, together with 4 extra HIMARS superior rocket techniques, a senior protection official stated.
The package deal can even embody 1,000 rounds of a brand new form of 155 mm ammunition for artillery provided by Ukraine’s Western allies.
A senior protection official stated the brand new artillery rounds have been each longer vary and extra exact than what the Pentagon has offered beforehand.
Because the first HIMARS launchers have been offered to Ukraine final month, analysts consider Ukrainian forces might have efficiently destroyed a dozen or extra Russian ammunition depots far behind the entrance traces.
Friday’s occasions in Russia’s battle towards Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned of attainable “catastrophic penalties” of Western sanctions on the worldwide power market.
Talking at a closed-door G20 assembly in Bali, Indonesia, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed Russia’s high diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, and demanded that Moscow permit grain exports from Ukraine. However diplomats stated that Lavrov had walked out earlier than Blinken’s remarks.
Russian forces in Ukraine’s Donetsk area have cleared the way in which for the execution of three foreigners sentenced to loss of life. Russia accuses the three of being mercenaries whereas Ukraine asserts they have been common troopers and must be protected by the Geneva Conference.
The area has lifted a moratorium on the loss of life penalty that ought to have lasted till 2025.
Russia warned Lithuania and the EU that it might undertake “harsh measures” towards them if the transit of some items to and from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad didn’t resume.
In June, the Lithuanian authorities imposed a transit ban via their territory to Kaliningrad. The ban utilized solely to items topic to EU sanctions, imposed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine has seized property value over 2.1 billion hryvnias (€70 million) owned by Russian state oil firm Rosneft, fuel agency Gazprom and nuclear power company Rosatom, Ukraine’s state safety service SBU stated.
Canada launched one other package deal of sanctions towards Russia. It contains 30 “disinformation brokers,” largely Russian propagandists, but in addition Patriarch Kirill, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Make amends for all Friday’s developments on the battle in Ukraine.
ar/sms (AFP, AP, dpa, Reuters)