Meanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday toured the Eastern Front, first visiting his troops in Pokrovsk, currently the main target of Russian attacks in Donbass.
He then went to another hot spot, Kupiansk, a city that the Russians had occupied in 2022 and which they briefly entered last week.
Demanded by kyiv for months, Joe Biden’s decision on the missiles was confirmed to AFP on Sunday by an American official, just a few weeks before Donald Trump took office, considered less inclined to help kyiv.
On the battlefield in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian soldiers, forced to give up ground almost every day, were doubtful.
The American announcement “probably comes too late”, one of them, serving in the Pokrovsk area, a logistical node to which the Russians are getting closer day by day, told AFP.
Moscow, moreover, claimed on Monday the conquest of a new village, that of Novooleksiïvka, located approximately 15 kilometers south of this city.
