WASHINGTON, August 15. /TASS/. The United States remains concerned about the escalation around Ukraine and believes that Kiev has no particular need to use weapons with longer range, US Department of Defense deputy spokesperson Sabrina Singh told reporters on Thursday.
"We believe the best way that they can be effective on the battlefield is by knitting those [West-supplied] capabilities together and continuing to push [Russian] forces back to regain their sovereign territory. That doesn't necessarily happen by doing long-range, deep strikes within Russia. And of course, we're worried about escalation, so just because Russia hasn't responded to something, it doesn't mean that they can't or won't in the future," she said.
The attack on Russia’s borderline region of Kursk has so far had no effect on the list of weapons, supplied by Washington to the Kiev government, Singh said.
"In terms of weapons that we're providing Ukraine in the immediate it doesn't impact what we're providing them, but you've seen us change the types of weapons and systems that we've given over the course of time," she said.
In the spokeswoman’s words, since Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine and the United States began delivering its weapons to the Kiev government, "the types of artillery, the types of equipment that they were getting, you've seen that change and evolve over time to where they have sophisticated, long range capabilities."
"We're training their pilots on [US-made] F-16 [fighter jets]. So you've seen us modify and give different capabilities over time, and we reserve that right to continue to do that," she said.