The 184 km of railway line that connects Rzeszow to Lviv represents perhaps the last Ukrainian hope to turn the tide of the war. Military aid of 61 billion dollars obtained from the United States will pass along that stretch in the next few days. The Pentagon is already preparing the first batch, which will include artillery ammunition and Patriot air defense means, which Kiev needs like oxygen to defend itself from Moscow’s growing offensive. The anti-Putin package would also include the supply of Atacms missiles, with a range of 300 km, and a fire power and precision never before possessed by the Ukrainian army. They are missiles to be used with caution, NATO says, due to the potential threat against Ukrainian targets across the border and the consequent escalation of the conflict. The United States is considering sending additional military advisors to Kiev. «This will not change the situation on the battlefield. The criminal regime will be defeated,” writes Volodin, president of the Russian Duma. And Moscow’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Polyansky, adds: “Another tens of thousands of soldiers will end up in the meat grinder.” For Foreign Minister Lavrov, “Washington wants Ukraine to resist until the presidential elections, so as not to ruin Biden’s image.” His spokesperson Maria Zakharova is of the same opinion: «Washington’s actions will result in the same sensational and humiliating fiasco that occurred in Vietnam and Afghanistan». However, they are superficial declarations, because according to the British 007s the Russian forces are already intensifying the attacks by exploiting the time window before the arrival of the new aid.
Obviously Kiev is celebrating, and on Also on Zelensky has one certainty: “Now we have the opportunity to take the initiative.” Concern instead comes from Hungary, where Orban recalls that «it is a vortex of war that could drag Europe into the abyss. Brussels plays with fire, but we are not the toy of the great powers.”
In light of the imminent arrival of weapons, it remains to be seen what Ukraine’s offensive priorities will be. For Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi the “experimentation” could take place in Khasiv Yar, in the East, a location that Moscow would like to conquer by May 9th (Victory Day celebrations), and then march on Kramatorsk. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Blinken, leaving for China, reveals that the US will adopt punitive measures if Beijing continues to send weapons-related technology to Russia.
On the 788th day of fighting, the Ukrainian navy attacked the Russian ship Kommuna, which caught fire in the port of Sevastopol. Moscow ballistic missiles injured 4 people in Odessa. Russian forces have captured Bogdanovka, Donetsk. In the same region, in Ukrainsk, a civilian died during an attack. On Saturday, Zaporizhzhia was the target of 390 attacks, including 124 with drones. Lithuania and Poland’s exercises began yesterday, together with other NATO troops, at the “Suwalki breach”, an area of approximately 100 km that divides Kaliningrad from the Belarusian border, with 1,700 soldiers involved.
The Russians bombed Nikopol several times.
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