The Biden administration is preparing to step up the kind of weaponry it is offering Ukraine by sending advanced, long-range rocket systems that are now the top request from Ukrainian officials, multiple officials say
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The administration is leaning toward sending the systems as part of a larger package of military and security assistance to Ukraine, which could be announced as soon as next week. Senior Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, have pleaded in recent weeks for the US and its allies to provide the Multiple Launch Rocket System, or MLRS.
'The closet is bare': Aid to Ukraine depletes US weapons supply 02:51 Asked on Monday whether the US would provide the systems, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin demurred."I don't want to get ahead of where we are in the process of resourcing requirements," he told reporters. The administration had similar concerns about providing Ukraine with additional MiG-29 fighter jets, which some worried could allow the Ukrainians to take the fight into Russia.
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