The White House confirmed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be in Washington today : «He was eager – said a senior American official during a briefing with a small number of journalists – to make his first foreign trip to the US to thank the country of bipartisan support.
" The visit - it was added - is a message from the United States to Putin and to the world that we will help Ukraine for as long as necessary ".
And again today Joe Biden will announce the sending of a new package of weapons to Kiev "of almost two billion dollars" which, for the first time, will contain Patriot missiles.
The widespread fear is that Moscow could launch another large-scale offensive in the middle of winter, meanwhile the Guardian reveals the frustration and fears of the Russian military at the front. These are the telephone calls - often unauthorized - between the soldiers and their families, intercepted by the Ukrainian forces and to which the newspaper has had access. " Nobody feeds us, mom. Our means suck, honestly. We take water from the puddles, then we filter it and drink it ».
On November 8, Private Andrey, contrary to orders, called his mother from the city of Lyman in eastern Ukraine. " Where are the missiles Putin talks about so much?" There is a building in front of us and we cannot hit it. We would just need a Caliber». Then the reassurances: « I always pray, mum. Every morning .' Already on 26 October a soldier confided to his wife that he was contemplating the possibility of surrendering: «I'm in a sleeping bag, all wet, coughing, in bad shape. We are all knowingly being sent to slaughter."
(Unioneonline/ss)
