Russian troops bombed Kramatorsk in Donetsk in the evening. In particular, they hit a residential building, where there are reportedly two dead and seven injured. This is reported by Ukirinform, citing the head of the regional administrator, Pavlo Kyrylenko. The city council of the town in a message on Telegram added that a rocket also hit the cemetery.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has assured that all those responsible for the bombing of Kramatorsk, as a result of which at least two people died, will be found and punished. “Residential building, rocket attack. Peaceful people are dead and are under rubble. This…is the daily reality of life in our country. A country bordering on absolute evil. And what do we need to defeat to reduce the probability to zero of the repetition of such tragedies”, wrote the president, quoted by Ukrinform.
The Ukrainian military awaits a new weapon designed to raise the quality of the military response to Russia. The United States in the new aid package would be ready to include i missili Glsdbcapable of hitting the target up to a distance of 150 km: almost double the range of the Himars so far supplied to Kiev.
An alarm signal for Moscow, which has warned of the risks of further escalation. And in the meantime he has given the ok to a bounty on Abrams tanks.
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The “ground launched small diameter bombs” (Glsdb), can hit a target up to 150 kilometers “within a meter radius and at a 360 degree angle”, reads the official page of the manufacturer , the Saab. (HANDLE)
The invading forces, according to the Ukrainian government, could launch a major offensive already in the next 2-3 weeks. Hence the renewed calls for allies to supply more powerful weapons. Starting with long-range missiles, like the Americans Atacms, 300 km range. With respect to this last request, Washington is stalling for time for now, but at the same time it is working on a new supply of arms that will partly meet Kiev. In the new package, worth over 2 billion dollars, there should in fact be room for the first time for Ground Launched Small Diameter Bombs, GPS-guided, usable in all weather conditions, even against armored vehicles. And above all, with 150 kilometers of range, compared to the 80 of the Himars.
With the GLSDB, almost all Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory would come within range of the Kiev counter-offensive, including Crimea. In addition to the United States, which remains the main supplier for Kiev (27 billion dollars), the other NATO partners are also accelerating their efforts to support the country under invasion.
It is the case ofItaliawhich is preparing to launch the sixth military aid packageDefense Minister Guido Crosetto confirmed in an interview with the Financial Times. “Probably” it will include “defense weapons against Russian missile attacks”, explained Crosetto, assuring: “We will give everything we can without endangering the Italian defence”. At the top of Kiev’s wishes is the advanced Samp-T anti-aircraft system, on which Rome and Paris have long been working.
The EU is also doing its part. The prediction is of train at least 30,000 Ukrainian soldiersincluding tank crews, after several countries made large numbers of tanks available.
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‘Team Europe’ moves to Kiev for two days. (HANDLE)
Furthermore, another important partner, Israel, could line up alongside Kiev. The question of military aid is being “examined”, announced Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. Without excluding that in the package there could be the Iron Dome defense system: the flagship of the anti-aircraft, which for years has successfully intercepted the rockets launched from Gaza.
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The Israeli premier on CNN, ‘I’m not proposing. Military aid to Kiev? I am examining them. Meanwhile, the US is preparing to send long-range missiles (ANSA)
This renewed activism has provoked once again the condemnation of Moscow, which launched arrows in all directions. Sending longer-range missiles would be “a direct way to fuel tensions and the level of escalation”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denounced, while assuring that they would not be decisive in changing the course of the war. Perhaps Moscow fears Western tanks more, so much so that Peskov himself welcomed the proposals made by a private company and some governors to pay a reward for every American Abrams destroyed in Ukraine
Maria Zakharova, on the other hand, took it out on Emmanuel Macron for hunting. Defining “absurd” the words of the French president according to which the possible supply of jets to the Ukrainians would not lead to an escalation of the conflict. “I refuse to believe that a grown man could have such logic,” said the volcanic Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman. The protest did not spare even the Israeli government, despite its traditional good relations with the Kremlin: “When it comes to arms supplies to Ukraine, we do not classify countries according to geography. We will consider all these weapons as legitimate targets for the forces Russia”, is the warning delivered to Netanyahu. And it doesn’t matter that the Israeli prime minister has just offered to mediate between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky “if requested by the parties”.
