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Ukraine War Latest: US not sending rocket systems that can reach into Russia – Biden

US not sending rocket systems that can reach into Russia – Biden

The US will not send Ukraine rocket systems that can reach into Russia, President Joe Biden says.

He was asked by a reporter if he was going to send long range rocket systems to Ukraine.

His comments follow reports that the Biden administration had been considering sending advanced long-range rocket systems to Kyiv.

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Russia had said it saw any deliveries of heavy weapons as a provocative escalation.

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Earlier Ukrainian defence adviser Yuriy Saktold the BBC his country needed so-called multi-launch rocket systems which have a longer range than what Ukraine has at the moment, “to redress the imbalance in artillery in the east”.

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