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The Biden administration on Wednesday approved the $285 million sale of a NASAMS medium-range advanced air defense system to Ukraine, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports from the State Department.
Ukraine already has 2 such systems, and Washington has committed to providing another 6 under its Security Assistance Initiative.
The latest move came on the heels of an incursion into Russia's Belgorod oblast, where Moscow claims to have "documented" some abandoned or damaged Western military vehicles, including US-made Humvees.
Washington distanced itself from Belgorod insertions, insisting that it did not "encourage or enable strikes inside of Russia," as the State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller put it, during his daily press briefing.
In the meantime, he said, "It is up to Ukraine to decide how to conduct this war."
During Wednesday's briefing, Miller also repeated the allegations that Moscow was forcibly deporting Ukrainian children into Russia.
“They're denying parents and legal guardians access to those children… and giving children from Ukraine Russian passports and attempting to take away a part of their identity,” he said.
The spokesperson also commented on the recent controversial meeting between a leading United Nations official for children and Russia's ombudsman for children's rights, who is wanted by the world's permanent war crimes court.
The United States is "deeply concerned" by that meeting, he said when responding to TURAN's questions.
Maria Lvova-Belova, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court's prosecutor for the war crime of deporting hundreds of Ukrainian children to Russia, last week held a meeting in Moscow with Virginia Gamba, the special representative of the UN secretary-general for children.
“We are deeply concerned that a senior UN diplomat met with a fugitive subject to an ICC arrest warrant for committing war crimes against children," Miller said. "Such conduct undermines our shared commitment to protecting children in conflict zones." 0
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