JRL NEWSWATCH: “Boost for Ukraine as U.S. expected to send longer-range rockets” – Reuters

“News that the United States could soon send rockets nearly doubling the firing range of Ukrainian forces gave Kyiv a big lift … even as its troops were being pushed back by a relentless Russian winter offensive in the east. In … Kyiv, authorities raided the home of one of Ukraine’s most prominent billionaires and a former interior minister, the boldest moves so far in a war-time anti-corruption campaign …. Two U.S. officials said a new $2 billion package of military aid to be announced as soon as this week would for the first time include Ground Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB), a new weapon designed by Boeing. …”

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