Meanwhile, the u.s will send more weapons
to ukraine. Ukrainian media reported that
ukrainian armed forces will soon receive
more ammunition, small arms, secure radios, medical equipment spare parts and other
military equipment from the united
states.
Brutal clashes once again occur in
ukraine's eastern region. russian-backed
forces reportedly attacked the ukrainian
army position with weapons banned under
the minx agreement. Towards Pesky 11 kilometers northwest of Donetsk. The enemy launched two attacks
using tripod mounted man portable
anti-tank guns, heavy machine guns and
small arms. the press center of joint
forces operation (JFO) headquarters posted
on facebook.
According to the statement two joint
forces members received fatal wounds in
a blast while performing a combat
mission in a mined area. The joint forces
command and personnel expressed their
sincere condolences to the families and
friends of the heroes who died for
ukraine.
Thanks to the efforts of
ukrainian soldiers, the borders of the
joint forces units remained unchanged, the JFO press center said in the state.
Violence in eastern ukraine between
russian-backed separatist forces and the
ukrainian military has by conservative
estimates killed more than 14,000 people
and injured nearly 24,000 since april
2014. Although moscow has denied its
involvement, ukraine and nato have
reported the build-up of russian troops
and military equipment near donetsk and
russian cross-border shelling.
The conflict in ukraine risks further
deterioration of U.S russia relations
and greater escalation if russia expands
its presence in ukraine or into nato
countries. Russia's actions have raised
wider concerns about its intentions
elsewhere in eastern europe and a
russian incursion into a NATO country
would solicit response from the united
states as a NATO ally.
The U.S will give ukraine more weapons
Over the past month, the u.s
administration has quietly gone through
a process of approving and authorizing
an additional two hundred million
dollars in defense support for ukraine.
This was first reported by cnn then
ukrainian media, ukraine forum, citing four sources familiar with the
issue. In late december the biden
administration quietly authorized an
additional 200 million dollars in
security assistance to ukraine, the
report said.
The security package authorized the
shipment of much of the same defensive
equipment the u.s has provided in the
past, including small arms and ammunition, secure radios, medical equipment spare
parts and other military equipment.
The latest package was authorized just
weeks before the us and russia were set
to launch security talks. According to two cnn sources the biden
administration told congress in early
january that new aid to ukraine had been
approved. this was also done without any
publicity the report knows.
Anonymous officials added that it would
take some time to deliver the aid to
ukraine. As you could form reported, in early
september during Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelinsky's visit to the united
states.
US President Joe Biden announced that ukraine would
receive additional defense aid worth 60
million dollars. in december the pentagon reported on
sending the last transfer package. As of mid-december, the u.s had provided
ukraine with more than 450 million
dollars in security assistance, a white house official told CNN.
"By the
end of the year the administration had
delivered new javelin missiles and
command launch units, on class patrol
boats, first aid kits secure radios
electronics medical equipment, engines
generators spare parts and other
equipment," the official said.
A week earlier secretary of state
anthony blinken told abc that the
administration had continued to provide
defensive assistance to ukraine as
recently as the last couple of weeks and
that if there is further aggression by
russia against ukraine. We'll see even
more of that.
Are Russian forces getting ready for war
in ukraine, that is certainly the fear
among western leaders and in ukraine as
russia and the west take part in a week
of negotiations. Russia seized part of southern ukraine
in 2014 and backed separatists who
started a conflict in large areas of the
east.
Now russia warns of military measures if
the west does not meet its demands and
the us is warning of unprecedented
sanctions. So how serious is the risk of conflict? let's find out the answer.
Ukraine shares borders with both the eu
and russia but as a former soviet
republican has deep social and cultural
ties with russia and russia is widely
spoken there. Russia has long resisted ukraine's move
towards european institutions and it is
now demanding it never joins NATO, the
western alliance.
It was when ukrainians deposed their
pro-russian president that russia moved
in, seizing and annexing ukraine's southern
crimean peninsula. Russian-backed
separatists then captured large swathes
of ukraine's two eastern regions
collectively known as the Donbas.
Conflict between rebels and ukraine's
military has continued to this day, but
it is the russian forces operating
beyond the ukrainian border that are of
most concern. Western intelligence services say they
number up to 100,000.
There is no sense of an imminent threat
and after 10th of january talks with his
u.s counterpart in geneva, russia's
deputy foreign minister Sergey Ryakov
insisted there were no plans, no
intentions to attack ukraine. It described recent troop movements on
russian territory as nothing to fear
and armed forces chief valerie gerasimov
earlier denounced reports of an
impending invasion as a lie.
However, President Vladimir Putin has
spoken of appropriate retaliatory
military technical measures if what he
calls the west's aggressive approach
continues and Mr Ryakov has compared the
current situation to the 1962 cuban
missile crisis, when the u.s and soviet
union came close to nuclear conflict.
