Editor’s note: This page recaps the news from Ukraine on Saturday, March 12. Follow here for the latest updates and news from Sunday, March 13, as Russia’s invasion continues.
With the Russian invasion now in its third week, attention is increasingly focused on the West’s efforts to arm and re-supply Ukrainian forces against an enemy with vastly superior weaponry.
Days after the Biden administration rejected Poland’s proposal to provide Soviet-built MiG-29 fighter jets to the U.S. to give to Ukraine, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters Friday other military equipment was continuing to reach Ukrainian fighters.
“We are working with allies and partners to help get the kinds off capabilities that we know the Ukrainians need and are using very well inside Ukraine,” he said. “Some of that material we have and we are providing. Some of that material we don’t have but we know others have were helping coordinate that as well and that security assistance is flowing.”
That drew a warning from Russia’s deputy foreign minister Saturday who said convoys transporting foreign weapons into Ukraine will become “legitimate targets” for attacks.
Also Saturday, President Joe Biden authorized the State Department to provide up to $200 million for arms and equipment to aid Ukraine.
Devastating economic sanctions from the U.S. and its allies haven’t stopped Russia’s assault on Ukraine, which resulted in damage to another hospital — this time a cancer hospital in the southern…
