Zelenskyy wants a new training regime with the U.S., even as American forces continually train their Ukrainian counterparts. The Coloradan noted two other important items. The Ukrainian president displayed a “mastery” of wartime tactics, making his requests to American legislators credible, Crow said. The lawmaker added that he came away from the Ukraine trip with an appreciation that Zelenskyy wouldn’t ask for weapons his troops couldn’t use or that the U.S. Ukraine plans to remove the mines once it has a reliable and equivalent defensive capability against a Russian amphibious assault on the city, Crow said. “This system is actually going to be really critical for not just the Ukrainian economy, but worldwide hunger as well,” he said, noting that Ukraine has placed mines all around the strategic Port of Odessa to prevent Russian ships from entering.īut, as a result, Ukraine can’t export key commodities like grain or sunflower oil that help feed much of the world, particularly millions in the Middle East and Africa. Third, Crow reports that Zelenskyy wants more anti-ship missiles in Ukraine’s arsenal, namely Harpoons. “That would really have a devastating impact on the Russian military and provide Ukrainians with a new tool to defend themselves, but actually reseize the territory that was taken over by the Russians.”
“What we need to do is provide multiple-launch rocket systems,” or MLRS, he continued, especially the MARS system which has a longer range than other artillery equipment Ukraine has. artillery supplies,” said Crow, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. Second, the Ukrainian president wants “increased shipments of U.S. Zelenskyy assesses reusable and more advanced drones would help his troops in the war’s new phase. Basically, it’s a one-and-done kamikaze weapon that’s helped Ukrainian forces to date, but which has limited utility in the more open battlefields of the eastern Donbas. has already provided Switchblade drones - small, light remotely piloted vehicles that can loiter in the air for up to 30 minutes before being directed to targets by an operator on the ground, dozens of miles away. He told a small group of reporters, including NatSec Daily, what the Ukrainian leader is asking for.įirst, per Crow, “he needs more sophisticated, longer-range drones that can target, that have sophisticated precision-strike munitions and that can also return and be used multiple times and be rearmed.” JASON CROW (D-Colo.), a member of the congressional delegation to Ukraine last weekend, spoke at length with Ukrainian President VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY about the new weapons he requested to fend off Russia’s invasion. Send tips | Subscribe here | Email Alex | Email Quint
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