The Pentagon is preparing to supply Ukraine with one of the U.S. military’s most advanced weapons.
The Biden administration is considering granting a Ukrainian request for the Multiple Launch Rocket System and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, according to sources cited by CNN.
Administration officials are eyeing shipping the weapons to Ukraine as part of a military and security assistance package slated for next week.
Ukrainian officials have sought the rocket launchers for some time, having requested the weapons with more urgency than any other, according to Politico.
The Biden administration previously held up supplying the launchers to Ukraine, fearing that they’d be used to strike cities within Russia.
American officials have also questioned if supplying the weapons would deplete the U.S. military’s capabilities. Pentagon officials directed Lockheed Martin to increase the production of MRLS systems in a meeting last week. --->READ MORE HERE
Russian President Vladimir Putin may have staged a recent visit to a military hospital in Moscow to meet with wounded soldiers, according to eagle-eyed online users who claimed to have recognized one of the “patients” from a previous event.
Wearing a white lab coat, Putin was seen on video and in still photos talking to pajama-clad soldiers at Mandryk military hospital, which marked his first such visit since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.
Putin was accompanied on the visit by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. He asked one of the soldiers standing at attention next to their beds about his baby son, telling him: “He will be proud of his dad.”
After the hospital visit, Putin hailed the troops as “heroes” during a televised meeting with government officials.
But a day later, Adam Rang, a self-described “counter-propaganda” activist living in Estonia, tweeted that one of the soldiers in the hospital looked eerily familiar. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to +++++relevant+++++ and related stories:
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