Daily News | Six months after Russia’s war vs. Ukraine began, the West still won’t give Kyiv the weapons to win
the long-range artillery and rockets, warplanes, and anti-aircraft systems that would enable Kyiv to mount a serious counteroffensive in order to take back Russian-occupied land.
On my recent trip to Ukraine, I saw the grim results of Russia’s free hand to kill civilians with rockets and missiles: smashed apartment towers, shattered schools, hospitals, and malls, villages with every house destroyed, victims in hospitals and morgues., Ukraine’s second-largest city, which used to have a population similar to Philadelphia’s, I recently walked along concrete paths between the wrecked high-rise apartment complexes of North Saltivka with Col. Egor .
Every night, and sometimes by day, more Russian missiles and rockets strike civilian buildings in Kharkiv, often from inside Russia, whose border is only 20 miles from the city. The general, known for his close relationship with his officers and troops, played a key role in pushing the Russian military back from the edge of Kharkiv in the weeks following the invasion. But the Russians still hold Ukrainian territory around Kharkiv. Melnik wants to drive them back across the Ukraine-Russian border, far enough so that Kharkiv is beyond missile range.
So it is in Biden’s interest to help Ukraine mount a counteroffensive before winter. In southern Ukraine, Kyiv’s troops are itching to push the Russians back to, and ultimately out of, Crimea.critical new weapons like the multiple rocket launcher system known as the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System at a snail’s pace. Sixteen HIMARS, which have famously enabled Ukraine to hit Russian supply lines in the east and south, are only a small fraction of what is needed.
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