BREAKING: The US will send additional HIMARS advanced rocket systems to Ukraine in its $400 million military aid package
— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) July 8, 2022
Do you see what’s going on here?
Every time the Ukraine is on the verge of complete collapse, the US swoops in with a new aid package. They rush these emergency “small” packages under a billion dollars regularly to keep them afloat.
One of the problems is that the Ukraine is engaged in more graft than any other country on earth, and a lot of these weapons systems are just being directly sold to terrorists, while the cash is disappearing to Israel or the Bahamas or some other black hole.
The Biden administration said Friday that it will send another $400 million in military equipment to Ukraine, including four more advanced rocket systems. The weapons, said a senior defense official, will bolster Ukrainian efforts to strike deeper behind Russian frontlines in the eastern Donbas region.
The aid comes as Moscow this week claimed full control of Ukraine’s Luhansk province in the Donbas, but Ukrainian officials say their troops still control a small part of the province and fierce fighting continues in several villages.
The defense official said that the eight High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, that were previously sent are still being used by Ukraine forces in the fight. This will give them four more to help hit Russian command and control nodes, logistics capabilities and other systems that are further back behind the battlefront. A senior military official said at least 100 Ukrainian troops have been trained on the HIMARs. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details not yet made public.
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Ukraine’s leaders have publicly called on Western allies to quickly send more ammunition and advanced systems that will help them narrow the gap in equipment and manpower. The precision weapons can help Ukraine hit Russian weapons that are farther away and are being used to bombard Ukrainian locations.
The latest aid, approved by President Joe Biden on Friday afternoon, is the 15th package of military weapons and equipment transferred to Ukraine from Defense Department stocks since last August. In addition to the HIMARS, the U.S. will also send 1,000 rounds of 155 millimeter artillery which has an increased precision capability that also will help Ukraine hit specific targets. The package also will include three tactical vehicles, counter battery radar systems, spare parts and other equipment.
This is just small stuff. This is like taking small sips of water while you’re lost in the desert.
The Ukraine is always on the verge of becoming a completely failed state, and it is a failed state already, it is just being propped up by the US for reasons no one can explain. Something to do with “the global liberal order.” However, no one has defined that term.
Just pissing away our money at this useless proxy war
— stillsearching (@stuonpoint) July 8, 2022
— fabian moran (@fabmora1) July 8, 2022
😆🤣 the war that costs US between $500m to $800m a WEEK
— Zamray Atash🇦🇫 (@SkyZamaray) July 8, 2022
The US is caving it’s grave ! The decline is clear. And Americans will suffer so much when winter comes !
— Edu (@Eduma35) July 8, 2022
yes, those already-sent HIMARS have been destroyed by Russian artillery
— Seppo Niemi (@SeppoNiemi5) July 9, 2022
What happens if all that money, weapons and training accounts to nothing like it did in Afghanistan?
— Aki Kolehmainen (@drieakko) July 8, 2022
Ukraine most corupt governement financially broke sooner or later all weapons Western allies supplied will fall in Russian hands. Zelensky and his group of war lords will retire in US with billions of EU money. pic.twitter.com/Tde6AdmlY4
— David (@David12250816) July 9, 2022