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According to the American press, the United States has decided to stop deliveries of anti-aircraft defense missiles to Ukraine.
INTERNATIONAL – In the middle of Russian offensive, Ukraine loses major support. The administration of Donald Trump announced Tuesday, July 1, that the United States had ceased to deliver certain weapons to kyiv, saying that he is concerned about the drop in stocks of ammunition in the country.
“This decision was made to put the interests of America first”said in a statement sent to AFP Anna Kelly, assistant spokesperson for the White House, confirming press information, without giving more details.
According to Politico and other American media, this delivery of deliveries for kyiv concerns anti -aircraft defense missiles and shells. The judgment of deliveries to Ukraine follows, according to these media, to concerns of the Pentagon as to the reserves of the American army, from which military aid is directly withdrawn from kyiv.
“We are in the process of clarifying the situation”a Volodymyr Zelensky, Dmytro Lytvyne advisor, said to the press, assuring that “ Communication with the American part is currently continuing at all levels ”.
“Any delay or delay” in the deliveries of American weapons to kyiv “ would encourage ” Russia to continue its invasion, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday.
Ukrainian diplomacy has also announced to convene the US manager.
Serious consequences
For its part, Russia said on Wednesday that fewer weapons for Ukraine would bring the end of the conflict closer.
So far and despite the conflictual relationship with kyiv, the government of Donald Trump continued, at least partially, the military aid initiated under Joe Biden. Under the latter’s mandate, the United States has provided more than $ 60 billion in military aid to kyiv.
“If this reduction in American aid will not cause the collapse of Ukrainian lines, it will seriously harm Ukraine’s defense, in particular to its capacities in terms of anti -ballistic missiles and precision strikes”said with AFP John Hardie, Russian specialist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), an independent institute based in Washington.
“This decision will lead to the death of a greater number of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians, the loss of a greater number of territories and the destruction of a greater number of essential infrastructures”predicts this expert.
L’Ukraine « will have trouble ” To fight the Russian army without American ammunition, a Ukrainian military source said on AFP on Wednesday. “We currently depend strongly on deliveries of American weapons, even if Europe is doing everything possible, but we will have trouble without American ammunition”she recognized.
New attacks in the Kharkiv region
It intervenes when, after two sessions of unsuccessful negotiations in Istanbul between delegations from the two countries, Ukraine faces an intensification of Russian air attacks. The number of long -range drones launched by Russia experienced a 36.8 % increase in June, according to an AFP analysis established on Tuesday.
According to figures from the Ukrainian army, Russia sent 5,438 long -range attack drones against its territory in June – the highest number since February 2022 – against 3,974 in May. These are drones sent at night and counted each morning by kyiv. These figures do not include attacks of other types of drones used massively on the front.
These strikes highlight the anti -aircraft defenses and an exhausted civilian population after almost two and a half years of Russian invasion.
New attacks were reported this Wednesday, July 2 at dawn by the Ukrainian authorities, including one carried out with drones against a farm in the village of Borivske, in the Kharkiv region, which left one dead and an injured. Two other attacks in the same region have done material damage, but no victim.
For its part, the Ukrainian army claimed an attack on an oil refinery in the Saratov region, in Russia, used according to it “To provide fuel and lubricants to Russian military units involved in armed assault against Ukraine”according to a message from the staff published on Telegram. Russian authorities have not immediately confirmed this attack.
