Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal directly asked Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to provide Ukraine with longer-range missiles and fighter jets during a meeting in Washington on Wednesday.
“We will win this war,” Shmyhal said, according to The Hill. “But to achieve it faster and with fewer casualties, Ukraine still needs intensive military support — more air defense systems that minimize the impact of Russian airstrikes, more heavy artillery, mortars and ammunition for them.”
A leaked document from the Pentagon has revealed that the US believes Kyiv will soon run out of missiles for its Soviet-era air defense systems, which Ukraine’s armed forces are still mainly reliant on despite the Western systems they’ve provided.
“We also ask you for reconsider the possibility of providing Ukraine with longer-range missiles,” Shmyhal told Austin. Another leak suggested Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would use longer-range US weapons to strike Russian territory, which would risk a major escalation of the war.
Shmyhal said Kyiv was looking for a coalition of NATO countries to provide Western-made aircraft. “Ukraine is initiating the building of a new, so-called fighter jet coalition. And we are inviting the United States to become its most important participant. America can once again demonstrate its leadership by providing Ukraine with F-15 or F-16 aircraft,” he said.
Austin didn’t comment on Shmyhal’s requests but vowed continued support for Ukraine. The US is already laying the groundwork to provide Kyiv with F-16s by hosting Ukrainian pilots to assess their skill levels and see how long it takes to train them on American planes.
“Taking care of business, everyday, taking care of business, that’s what I say”… “So long, it’s been good to know you, so long….”
Ukraine’s military requests are sounding more and more like the complaints and demands of a drug addict. I’m afraid the US and Ukraine have developed a co-dependent emotional relationship. It’s not healthy…someone needs to arrange an intervention, for the good of all concerned.
Tell him to go to hell… I thought the Israelis were ungrateful beggars, but these Ukrainian Nazis have totally taken their spot.
Zelensky is not Ukranian
To be fair to Z, the US is making impossible demands of him.
He is correct that sending an insufficient attack force will most assuredly lead to the elimination of that attack force.
He is listening to his military commander, who is saying don’t attack until we have sufficient forces.
The fact that the US is demanding that Ukraine launch an attack with insufficient forces shows that our military leaders are out of touch – good at making profit but horrible at managing a war – or that they are not being listened to. Either way, we will win a few headline battles, and likely lose the war decisively.
Z put himself in that position.
Kinda true.
Other world leaders don’t do a good job of standing up to the US either, and many who try have gotten killed.
When it comes to international politics, we play hardball.
True. Which makes him either gullible or stupid.
Ukrainian sovereignty ended with the Obama/Biden/Nuland/Sullivan regime change. The Ukrainian neo-Nazis became the American Jr. partners, e.g. servants. The rewards are generous for selling the nation.
“Austin didn’t comment on Shmyhal’s requests but vowed continued support for Ukraine.”
Lloyd couldn’t comment until someone told him what to say. So, he stuck to script.
Waiting for Nuland to give the script
Give them nukes. Best option
hilarious
There’s not much Biden can do if Zelensky refuses to fight, and Z is sending signals that the operation will not begin until Washington delivers enough equipment and munitions to ensure a reasonable probability of success.
Biden is going to have to decide how much he wants this. Zelensky is publicly building the case that any future defeat is Biden’s fault.
But they are both joined on the hip. No finger-pointing can change that.
Is that request more of one to move the war directly to Russia deep inside of it?
Ukraine does not need the capability unless that is the next step.
If you can’t win on the battlefield you start hitting the cities to break the will of the superior opponent seems to be the option they are asking permission to do.
“Ukrainian PM Appeals Directly to Lloyd Austin for Long-Range Missiles, Jets Denys Shmyhal met with Austin in DC on Wednesday”
Just like Nazi Germany hoping for a wonder weapon to defeat Russia in the 1940s, Ukraine keeps begging for wonder weapons like a child begging for candy.
A few fourth generation fighters are still vulnerable to the integrated Russian SAM systems. Any attack on Moscow or Russian territory will invite World War 3 with Nuclear weapons.
To quote Scott Ritter and this goes for all all of his fascist staff:
“The hubris and arrogance that says that the world revolves only around Ukraine and that every aspect of global interaction is defined by Ukraine and Ukraine alone.”
“This man is insane, he is a threat not only to the Ukrainian people and himself, but a threat to the entire world. People should understand that Zelensky is a person who we long ago should have stopped supporting.”
“Because he is not only going to bring about the end of Ukraine, but he is doing his best to bring about the end of the world.”
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