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The Weekly Round-Up: Developments on Ukraine 9

June 17, 2022

Ukraine has asked for additional long-range weapons with “the range we need to reduce the advantage of the Russian Federation’s equipment.” Germany expects that seven Panzerhaubitze 2000 artillery, with a range of 25 miles, should arrive in Ukraine soon. The US undersecretary of defense for policy, Colin Kahl, said that the four High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) the US has sent are an “initial tranche”; the US will “provide the weapons the Ukrainians need to prosecute the targets inside Ukrainian territory.” Kahl also said that he believes Russian President Putin still “has designs on a significant portion of Ukraine, if not the whole country. That said . . . I do not think the Russians have the capacity to achieve those grandiose objectives.” President Biden announced an additional $1 billion in weaponry for Ukraine, including 18 more howitzers and 36,000 rounds of ammunition for them as well as two Harpoon coastal defense systems and an additional $225 million in humanitarian assistance.

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