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The United States has chosen to increase its aid to Ukraine, with an additional billion dollars which now includes sending advanced technology. Since last February 24, all American aid has amounted to nearly 10 billion dollars.
Western weapons are the other stake in the war in Ukraine. On Monday August 8, the United States announced a billion dollars in new financial aid, mainly armaments for Ukrainian soldiers. This is the eighteenth shipment of this type since the beginning of the conflict. In the package, ammunition for rocket launchers, but also anti-radar missiles capable of hitting their target at more than 100 kilometers.
State-of-the-art technologies that Washington did not want to deliver before. This Western armament, more powerful the Ukrainian arsenal, could push back the frontiers of war. “We are in an accelerating cycle, since the Russians respond to the Ukrainians, who rely on the Americans”explains Jean-Paul Palomeros, former supreme commander of NATO for the transformation of military capabilities, Wednesday August 10 in the 11 p.m. of franceinfo.