Defense industry insiders say the US is considering supplying Ukraine with weapons that could reach deep into Russian territory. The aerospace and armaments group Boeing has deployed its GLSDB (Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb) system, which is said to allow small, low-cost precision bombs to be mounted on numerous existing missiles. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is preparing his compatriots for a harsh winter with fierce Russian attacks.
“As long as they have missiles, they will not rest,” Zelenskyy said in his video address to the Russian soldiers on Sunday night. The Ukrainian army is preparing to repel further shelling. “Russia is trying to use the cold against the people this winter,” Zelenskyj said, referring to Moscow’s targeted attacks on Ukrainian power plants and combined heat and power plants. A few days ago, the head of state spoke about Russia’s “energy terror”.
More than nine months after the start of Russia’s offensive war, fighting has been particularly fierce in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk. The newly liberated city of Kherson in the south is also repeatedly shelled by the Russian army. In freezing temperatures, many Ukrainian households are temporarily or even completely without heating, electricity and water.
Kiev still relies on Western weapons
Although the supply of modern multi-role HIMARS missile launchers from the US had greatly strengthened the Ukrainian army since the summer, Zelenskyy’s army still relies on Western weapons. According to reports, the GSDB system will now be delivered from Spring 2023.
It combines the GBU-39 bomb with M26 missiles, both of which are in large numbers in US stockpiles. The range of this system is 150 kilometers and has been developed by Boeing together with SAAB since 2019. Neither Boeing nor the US Department of Defense would comment on the information. “We need weapons to win this war,” Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev, told ZDF on Monday.
Source: Krone
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