{"id":25716,"date":"2022-06-02T14:20:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T14:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/06\/02\/russia-warns-west-of-weapons-repercussions-pounds-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:26:12","slug":"russia-warns-west-of-weapons-repercussions-pounds-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/2022\/06\/02\/russia-warns-west-of-weapons-repercussions-pounds-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia warns West of weapons repercussions, pounds Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KYIV, Ukraine \u2014 Britain pledged Thursday to send sophisticated medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine, joining the United States and Germany in equipping the embattled nation with advanced weapons for shooting down aircraft and knocking out artillery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Western arms have been critical to Ukraine\u2019s success in stymieing Russia\u2019s much larger and better-equipped military during a war <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-putin-bb6809a48867a019591197a1cbb9984d\">now in its 99th day<\/a>. But as Russian forces closed in on a key city in recent days, the Ukrainian government said its fighters needed better rocket launchers to prevail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Kremlin spokesman again warned of \u201cabsolutely undesirable and rather unpleasant scenarios\u201d if the latest Western-supplied weapons were fired into Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis pumping of Ukraine with weapons &#8230; will bring more suffering to Ukraine, which is merely a tool in the hands of those countries that supply it with weapons,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-moscow-united-states-39a4e31399665b6fc824fba8a29a3f56\">Russian forces continued to pound<\/a> towns and cities overnight and to tighten their grip on the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk. The U.K. Defense Ministry reported that Russia had captured most of the city, one of two in Luhansk province that had remained under Ukrainian control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As fighting raged on in Ukraine\u2019s east, some residents forced to flee Russian attempts to storm the capital, Kyiv, confronted the overwhelming task of rebuilding their shattered lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nila Zelinska and her husband, Eduard, returned this week for the first time to the charred ruins of what used to be their home outside Kyiv. They fled with her 82-year-old mother amid Russian shelling and airstrikes in the days of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelinska sobbed and recovered from the rubble a doll that belonged to one of her grandchildren, clutching it as if it were a real child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMay there be peace on earth, peace so that our people are not suffering so much,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6389\" height=\"4259\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22153478163341.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22153478163341.jpg.jpg 6389w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22153478163341.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22153478163341.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22153478163341.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22153478163341.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22153478163341.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6389px) 100vw, 6389px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A dog walks past shells used by a Ukrainian artillery unit in a village near the frontline in the Donetsk oblast region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo\/Bernat Armangue)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking by video link to a security conference in Slovakia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for even more weapons and sanctions targeting Russia to halt such horrors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs of today, the occupiers control almost 20% of our territory, almost 125,000 square kilometers (48,262 square miles),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelenskyy said Russia had fired 15 cruise missiles in the past day and used a total of 2,478 missiles since invading Ukraine, \u201cmost of them targeted civil infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said the U.K. would send an unspecified number of M270 launchers, which can fire precision-guided rockets up to 80 kilometers (50 miles). Ukrainian troops will be trained in the U.K. to use the equipment, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The British government says the decision to provide the launchers was coordinated closely with the U.S. government, which said Wednesday that it would supply High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems to Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two missile systems are similar, though the American one has wheels while the British one &#8212; also U.S.-built &#8212; runs on tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Germany had come under criticism that it wasn\u2019t doing enough to help Ukraine. Chancellor Olaf said Wednesday that his country would supply Ukraine with modern anti-aircraft missiles and radar systems. He told lawmakers that the IRIS-T\u2019s surface-to-air missiles Germany planned to provide were the most modern air defense system the country has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sweden also announced plans Thursday to donate arms to Kyiv. They include missiles, semi-automatic rifles and anti-tank weapons, Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist said. The country\u2019s parliament is expected to approve the donation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6000\" height=\"3572\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22151780796821.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22151780796821.jpg.jpg 6000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22151780796821.jpg.jpg?resize=300,179 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22151780796821.jpg.jpg?resize=768,457 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22151780796821.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,610 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22151780796821.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,914 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22151780796821.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1219 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6000px) 100vw, 6000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">FILE &#8211; In this May 23, 2011, file photo a launch truck fires the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) produced by Lockheed Martin during combat training in the high desert of the Yakima Training Center, Wash. (Tony Overman\/The Olympian via AP, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Western-supplied arms helped Ukraine fend off Russian attempts to storm the capital, Moscow shifted its focus to seizing all of eastern Ukraine\u2019s industrial Donbas region. As Russia\u2019s military steadily bombarded Ukrainian-held areas, its offensive there resulted in incremental gains in the last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Ukrainian military expert said an uptick in Russian missile strikes came in response to the newly promised arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSupplies of Western weapons are of great concern for the Kremlin, because even without sufficient weapons the Ukrainian army is daringly resisting the offensive,\u201d military analyst Oleh Zhdanov told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Analysts think Russia is hoping to overrun the Donbas before any weapons that might turn the tide arrive. It will take at least three weeks to get the precision U.S. weapons and trained troops onto the battlefield, the Pentagon said. But Defense Undersecretary Colin Kahl said he believes they will arrive in time to make a difference in the fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyiv also is set to get a diplomatic boost with the formal installation of a new U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. U.S. Ambassador Bridget Brink was set to hand her credentials to Zelenskyy on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brink will be Washington\u2019s first ambassador in Kyiv since former U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly forced out Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch in 2019. She later became a key figure in the first impeachment proceedings against Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahead of her Senate confirmation last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-kyiv-donald-trump-europe-impeachment-50eac41f089dbd618bfd390d11759ad1\">Brink promised senators<\/a> she would work to make Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine a \u201cstrategic failure.\u201d Her work in Kyiv is expected to focus on coordinating Western weapon shipments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called Ukraine\u2019s repeated push for more weapons a \u201cdirect provocation intended to draw the West into the fighting.\u201d He warned that U.S.-supplied multiple rocket launchers would raise the risk of an expanded conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3340\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22135664589329.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22135664589329.jpg.jpg 5000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22135664589329.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22135664589329.jpg.jpg?resize=768,513 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22135664589329.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,684 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22135664589329.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1026 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22135664589329.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1368 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5000px) 100vw, 5000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ukrainian serviceman walks past a blown Russian APC near Kutuzivka, north of Kharkiv, east Ukraine, Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo\/Mstyslav Chernov)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Russian forces kept up their bombardment of the Donbas and other parts of Ukraine while ground troops made an inching advance in the east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A regional governor said Russian forces now control 80% of Sievierodonetsk, a city that is key to Moscow\u2019s efforts to complete its capture of the Donbas. Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists have fought in the eastern region for eight years, and the separatists held swaths of territory before the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Military analyst Zhdanov noted that after the fierce fighting in and around Sievierodonetsk, Russian forces will be \u201cexhausted,\u201d and military leaders will need to replenish their both their troops and weaponry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUkraine will try to use this pause to accumulate Western weapons, form a strategic reserve and prepare a counteroffensive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only other city in Luhansk province that the Russians have not yet captured, Lysychansk, is still fully under Ukrainian control, the governor said, but is likely to be the next target. The two cities are separated by a river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moscow\u2019s forces also stormed the town of Komyshuvakha in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, large parts of which are under Russian control, the Ukrainian General Staff said Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the western Lviv region, a Russian missile hit rail lines that were a key conduit for supplies of Western weapons and other supplies, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his nightly video address, Ukraine\u2019s president turned the focus to his country\u2019s children. He said 243 of them have died in the war, 446 have been wounded and 139 were missing. The real numbers could be higher, he added, as his government doesn\u2019t have a full picture of areas under Russian occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelenskyy said 200,000 children were among the Ukrainians forcefully taken to Russia and dispersed across that vast country: \u201cThe purpose of this criminal policy is not just to steal people but to make those who are deported forget about Ukraine and unable to return.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Becatoros reported from Sloviansk, Ukraine. 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