A Pentagon spokesman said US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin had spoken to a number of allies. Read more at straitstimes.com.
contained a mixture of true and false information about his country’s military and downplayed its negative impact.
“Austin has conducted a large number of phone calls, conducted a large amount of outreach to our allies and partners around the world to discuss the matter with them, to highlight how seriously we are taking this issue, to include several conversations with his Ukrainian counterpart, minister Reznikov,” US Brigadier-General Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, told CNN.
The rockets could help Ukraine weaken Russian ground positions and provide advancing Ukrainian ground forces with air support as Kyiv plans a spring offensive. Demolition equipment and trucks are another part of the package, they said. They warned the package was still being finalised and could change.
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