The following report is by The Trends Journal:
Oleksiy Reznikov, the Ukrainian defense minister, told reporters that the upcoming assault to regain land will hinge on the availability of weapons and the number of trained soldiers ready to fight.
“Yes everything is ready,” he said. He said the preparations are in the “home stretch.”
The Defense Department said in a statement that the additional security assistance was the Biden administration’s 37th drawdown of equipment from its inventories since August 2021, over a year before the Russian invasion.
The package will include ammunition for 155mm HIMARS, 155mm artillery rounds, additional howitzers, artillery and mortar rounds, and anti-armor capabilities.
“The United States will continue to work with its Allies and partners to provide Ukraine with capabilities to meet its immediate battlefield needs and longer-term security assistance requirements,” the statement read.
The U.S. has offered more than $35.7 billion in military aid since the invasion.
Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, a press secretary from the Pentagon, told reporters that he could not get into specifics about any potential counteroffensive other than to say “from the very beginning we’ve been working closely with Ukrainian leaders, with our allies and partners, to assess what Ukraine needs to defend their sovereignty and to take back their sovereign territory.”
While the U.S. continues to promote war, Ukraine burns.
The Ukrainian military accused Russian forces of using phosphorus weapons in Bakhmut, which has turned into a meat grinder. The BBC noted that white phosphorus weapons are not banned in combat but the use of the munition in a residential area is considered a war crime because they cause fast-spreading fires that are very difficult to put out.
Ukraine released drone footage that allegedly showed the phosphorus weapons being deployed. Russia has denied charges of using the munition in the past and has signed the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which the report said bans their use.
TRENDPOST: If you had the energy, and read deeper into the BBC article, you’d read that the chemical has been used “repeatedly over the past 15 years” including by U.S. forces against IS fighters in Iraq and Syria, Human Rights Watch said.
But when the U.S. uses the munition it’s the Good Guys vs. the Bad Guys, so that’s not worth mentioning, if you believe the perverse Western media.
TRENDPOST: The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the West’s support for Ukraine to keep the war going in hopes to weaken Russia and—in a dream world—remove Russian President Vladimir Putin from office.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who once said it was unwise to keep providing Ukraine with a “blank check” to keep fighting the war, changed his tune last week during a visit to Israel where he said, “I vote for aid for Ukraine. I support aid for Ukraine.”
Gerald Celente has repeatedly said that there are not two political parties in Washington, there is just one party: the War Party.
McCarthy addressed a Russian reporter and said, “I do not support what your country has done to Ukraine, I do not support your killing of the children either. You should pull out.”
Last October, when Republicans were trying to win back the House, he told reporters that Republicans will not keep writing a “blank check” for Kyiv.
“They just won’t do it. … It’s not a free blank check,” he said.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
No, really: a politician would lie and betray what he said he wouldn’t do? What a shock, right?
I recall saying this was going to happen before last year’s midterms, as did Russian officials (though I cannot remember what post I said it, not that that even matters). The point is, the war machine must roll on and these criminals in Washington must obey and tow the line.
Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
Psalm 68:30
It should also be noted that the European Union has elected to send €1 billion in ammunition to Ukraine that will include 155-mm-caliber artillery rounds and the potential for missile shipments, bringing their total to €5.6 billion.
Today’s decision is another major step to deliver more ammunition to Ukraine. The Ukrainian Armed Forces need substantial amounts of ammunition to defend the Ukrainian people and territory. They need it fast.
Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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