The Kremlin accused the U.S. of 'pouring fuel on the fire' as U.S. and Germany pledged to send Ukraine some of the most advanced weapons yet for shooting down aircraft and knocking out artillery.
West trying to strike balance between helping Kyiv, not triggering escalation from MoscowDestroyed military vehicles are seen Wednesday in the town of Rubizhne, in Ukraine's Luhansk region.
The U.S. is trying to strike a balance by helping Ukraine battle ferocious Russian artillery barrages while not providing weapons that could allow Ukraine to hit targets deep inside Russia and trigger an escalation of the war.Western arms have been critical to Ukraine's success in stymieing Russia's much larger and better-equipped military, thwarting its effort to storm the capital and forcing Moscow to shift its focus to the industrial Donbas region in the east.
The new arms could help Ukraine set up and hold new lines of defence in the east by hitting back at Russian artillery pieces that have been battering towns and cities and by limiting Russian airstrikes, said retired French Gen. Dominique Trinquand, a former head of France's military mission at the United Nations.
A pair of Ukrainian soldiers are seen on Wednesday riding electric scooters past a poster in central Kyiv.
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