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US officials say Ukraine is not using American technology in cross-border strikes against Russia. The New York Times writes about it. The publication does not specify which strikes are intended.
The New York Times' unnamed official sources also commented on the drone attacks on Russian territory. In their opinion, they are designed to boost the morale of the Ukrainian military and civilian population at the time of the counter-offensive.
Kiev's attempts to launch a counter-offensive in the direction of Zaporozhye, Artemivsk and Yuzhno-Donetsk began on June 4. The leadership of Ukraine hoped to reverse the development of the conflict at the expense of brigades armed with Western military equipment and trained by NATO instructors. On July 21, Vladimir Putin noted that the Ukrainian armed forces could not achieve the desired results, while the West was apparently disappointed with the way the counter-offensive was conducted. At the beginning of August, the Russian Ministry of Defense specified that more than 4,900 weapons had been destroyed since the beginning of the summer, and the losses of the Ukrainian army exceeded 43,000 people.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken recently said that the Ukrainian counter-offensive will drag on over time. At the same time, the Pentagon began supplying Kyiv with cluster munitions banned by international conventions. Even this measure, according to experts, will not seriously change the situation.