The US Department of Defense told which factor will play a decisive role in the war in eastern Ukraine. According to the US military, long-range fire will be the most important.

The next briefing of the department says that in the eastern regions of Ukraine the landscape is significantly different from the existing one in the north or south.. The fighting in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions is complicated by dense buildings, therefore, according to Pentagon representatives, the enemy must be hit in advance - before the start of street fighting.

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In addition, the military department noted that the United States is looking for ways to supply additional weapons for the Ukrainian army, and is also studying logistics directions for the speedy delivery of assistance to Ukraine..

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Earlier, the Pentagon spoke about the possibility of the Russian Federation using nuclear weapons, responding to a statement by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about "

Russia unequivocally threatens the world with its " If we superimpose the new statements coming from Moscow now on the long-term practice of public admiration for the power of nuclear weapons by Vladimir Putin, top Russian officials, numerous experts and the media, it can be argued that the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons by Russia is low.. How likely is the use of nuclear weapons by Russia in the war with Ukraine, Alexey Izhak analyzes in the article “Nuclear blackmail of Russia: what Putin is ready for and what Ukraine needs to know”.