Pentagon Shrugs Off Putin's Nuke Threats; Flow Of Arms Won't Stop

US Defense Department press secretary Patrick Ryder has shrugged off Russia’s nuclear threats, saying that the support of the US and its allies to Ukraine would never stop.

Photo Insert: The US officially admitted that 16 HIMAR launchers are operating in Ukraine, along with hundreds of M777 artillery pieces.

"We will continue to have those conversations, and we'll continue to think through not only what they need in the medium to long term, but also what they need now," Ryder told Ukraine Daily.

In fact, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he and his French counterpart Catherine Colonna are working on the shipment of additional weapons to the Caesar self-propelled howitzers that had been blasting away at Russian forces in the Kherson region and in Donetsk.

Germany has also delivered two more M-270 MARS artillery rocket systems to Ukraine, bringing to six the total number of multiple launch missile systems deployed in the war-ravaged country.

At least 50 armored fighting vehicles from Germany are set to join the war effort in a matter of days, Kyiv Independent also reported.

The US officialy admitted that 16 HIMAR launchers are operating in Ukraine, along with hundreds of M777 artillery pieces that can hit Russian forces in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine.

In a related development, Finland has seized the assets of Russian businessman Arkady Volozh and gas tycoons Boris and Arkady Rotenberg.

Finnish media Helsingin Sanomat reported that authorities seized the holdings of Russia's largest technology company Yandex after the European Union (EU) added the company's founder and CEO Arkady Volozh to its sanctions list.

The assets of Russian oligarchs Boris and Arkady Rotenberg, both close allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, were seized by the state.

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