US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Ukraine had promised the United States that advanced missile systems sent by the United States would not be used for purposes located on Russian territory.
“There is great trust between Ukraine and the United States, as well as between our allies and partners,” Blinken told a news conference.
The new weapons will include the H14ARS M142 high-mobile artillery missile system. The systems can launch missiles more accurately at targets 70 km away, which is significantly more than the equipment Ukraine currently has.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused the United States of deliberately adding fuel to the fire by sending weapons, and said it did not believe Kyiv would fire weapons at Russia.
Peskov also said that the Kremlin does not rule out a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky, but that such talks must be prepared in advance.
He says work on a peace document with Ukraine has long stalled.
“We are on the brink of a very deep food crisis related to the imposition of illegal restrictions on us and the actions of the Ukrainian authorities who have mined the Black Sea route and are not delivering grain from there, despite the fact that Russia does not interfere in any way,” he said. Peskov.