U.S. To Send More Weapons To Ukraine As Russia Looks Beyond Donbas

The United States will send four more high-mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS) to Ukraine, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow's military "tasks" in Ukraine now go beyond the eastern Donbas region. Austin told journalists at the Pentagon that Ukraine had made excellent use of the HIMARS that Washington had sent thus far, and their impact can be seen on the battlefield. "Russia is keeping up its relentless shelling, and that's a cruel tactic that harkens back to the horrors of…