“And it's our assessment that with the existing GIMLRS [Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System] capability that they have on the HIMARS and that we're providing more of, with this package, that they can reach the vast majority of targets on the battlefield,” Copper said on Tuesday.
“In total, the United States has now committed more than 17.5 billion [dollars] in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration, including more than 16.8 billion since the beginning of Russia's invasion on February 24,” the US deputy assistant secretary of defense said, referring to Russia’s ongoing special military operation in Ukraine.
Moscow Warns West Against Providing Kiev With Arms
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, for his part, underlined that the Ukraine conflict had become another pretext for the US and its allies to unleash an economic and information war against Moscow in order to deplete it strategically. “Ukraine has been picked [by the West] as an instrument of a hybrid war against Russia,” Shoigu added.