The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives unanimously approved a resolution that calls on the US authorities to immediately transfer ATACMS operational-tactical missile systems to Kyiv.
The initiative itself was presented in early June by a group of congressmen from both parties, TASS reports.
Biden was urged to urgently provide Ukraine with ATACMS in an amount “sufficient for the speedy victory of Ukraine,” but not violating the combat readiness of the States.
In addition, the legislators insist on the transfer of similar systems to Ukraine and express concern about the slow supply of weapons to Ukraine.
We are talking about long-range ATACMS missiles, which Washington has not supplied to Kyiv before.
Recall that the United States and Germany decided to supply the Armed Forces with M1 Abrams and Leopard tanks, after which they started talking in Kyiv about the need for fighters.
French President Emmanuel Macron allowed the delivery of aircraft to the Ukrainian army. The media also reported that Paris is considering a request from the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the training of pilots to fly fighter jets.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has repeatedly stressed that any shipments of weapons supplied by Western countries to Ukraine would be a legitimate target for the Russian Aerospace Forces. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the supply of weapons would not stop, but would prolong the conflict in Ukraine, and called the position of Western countries harmful and counterproductive.
