Ukraine Live: President Biden to send ammunition to Ukraine

Ukraine Live: President Biden to send ammunition to Ukraine

US President Joe Biden said the United States is giving Ukraine “further developed rocket frameworks and weapons” as its conflict with Russia grinds on.

Writing in a New York Times commentary, Biden said the US objective in Ukraine is “to see a democratic, independent, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine with the means to deter and defend itself against further aggression.”

He said the new shipment of arms would “enable them to more precisely strike key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine.”

Biden tried to illuminate plainly what the US points in Ukraine were, and was mindful so as to take note of the US isn’t looking to connect with Russia straightforwardly.

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“We do not seek a war between NATO and Russia. As much as I disagree with Mr. Putin, and find his actions an outrage, the United States will not try to bring about his ouster in Moscow,” Biden said, roughly two months after declaring in Warsaw that Putin “cannot remain in power.”

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“So long as the United States or our allies are not attacked, we will not be directly engaged in this conflict, either by sending American troops to fight in Ukraine or by attacking Russian forces,” he wrote.

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He went on to say that the US is “not encouraging or enabling Ukraine to strike beyond its borders. We do not want to prolong the war just to inflict pain on Russia.”

Biden said that US authorities “currently see no indication that Russia has intent to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, though Russia’s occasional rhetoric to rattle the nuclear saber is itself dangerous and extremely irresponsible.”

“Let me be clear: Any use of nuclear weapons in this conflict on any scale would be completely unacceptable to us as well as the rest of the world and would entail severe consequences,” Biden composed.

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