Biden says US sending medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and BEN FOX
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says the Biden administration is sending Ukraine a small number of high-tech, medium-range rocket systems. The U.S. will send Ukraine four sophisticated, medium-range rocket systems and ammunition to help stall Russian progress, but it will take at least three weeks to get the weapons and trained troops onto the battlefield. Colin Kahl, the defense undersecretary for policy, said the U.S. has received assurances that Ukraine will use the rockets to defend its country and not launch them into Russia. That underscores U.S. concerns about provoking a wider war with Russia while still providing Ukraine the weapons it has desperately requested. But a Kremlin spokesman said Wednesday that the U.S. is “deliberately and diligently pouring fuel on the fire.”