by Mike Stone
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will supply Ukraine with long-range rockets for the first time as part of Washington’s $2.2 billion (2.0 billion euros) new aid package, a US official announced on Friday.
The new aid comes as Washington announced last month the dispatch of Abrams heavy battle tanks to Kyiv, responding to a long-standing request from Ukrainian authorities and ending diplomatic differences between Western allies.
The new rockets will join the Himars rocket launcher systems, which were instrumental in the fall in Ukraine’s counter-offensive against Russian forces after their delivery last June.
(Report Mike Stone; French version Camille Raynaud, edited by Bertrand Boucey)
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