The U.S. is sending Ukraine an additional $125 million in weapons to assist in its military operations against Russia, including much-needed air defense capabilities, radars to detect and counter enemy artillery and anti-tank weapons.

The U.S. is sending Ukraine an additional $125 million in weapons to assist in its military operations against Russia, including much-needed air defense capabilities, radars to detect and counter enemy artillery and anti-tank weapons, the White House announced Friday.

The latest package comes as Ukraine has launched its largest ground offensive on Russian soil since the war began in February 2022. The offensive in the Kursk region has prompted Moscow to declare an emergency and send reinforcements there.

National security spokesman John Kirby said Ukraine’s use of U.S.-provided weapons in the offensive was in line with administration policies. The Biden administration has approved their use in cross-border counterstrikes against Russia but not against targets deeper inside Russia, although the specific distances are not clear.

The weapons in this latest aid package will be drawn from existing U.S. stocks and will include Stinger missiles, 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition, High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) ammunition and vehicles. It brings the total amount of U.S. aid to Ukraine since 2022 to $55.6 billion.

  • Dr. Bluefall@toast.oooEnglish
    21·
    5 months ago

    Al capone did plenty of charity…

    Cool, also irrelevant.

    They are sending billions of dollars in weapons to an authoritarian and corrupted government who passed martial law and forbids any man between 18-60 to leave the country, who’s also seeking to forcibly repatriate these who fled the country and are eligible for conscription.

    They past martial law because they are fighting for their sovereignty, my guy. If the US had an invader beating down its doorstep and they had already taken California, I feel like switching to wartime government is justifiable. A draft is unfortunate, but when the alternative is to fold in the face of Russian aggression? That’s no choice at all.

    They are doing this while backing a genocide in israel, selling weapons to dictatorships such as saudi arabia and doing business with countries like china who are directly supplying russia in this war.

    See previous. Yes, the US makes a lot of bad decisions. Supplying Ukraine is not one of them.

    They don’t give a shit about you and me or common people, rulers do not fight their wars they send others to die for their slimy interests. That’s not a good thing.

    So it is categorically impossible for leaders of nations to care about the people in the nations they administer? This comes off as incredibly cynical.

    • index@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      24·
      5 months ago

      They past martial law because they are fighting for their sovereignty, my guy. If the US had an invader beating down its doorstep and they had already taken California, I feel like switching to wartime government is justifiable. A draft is unfortunate, but when the alternative is to fold in the face of Russian aggression? That’s no choice at all.

      Forcing people to fight over invisible line on a map and pushing them into a meat grinder is evil. Rulers do not fight their wars they send peasants to die for them in the front. Freedom should never be abolished, wartimes are even a greater moment to fight for freedom and justice not against it.

      So it is categorically impossible for leaders of nations to care about the people in the nations they administer?

      They are totally ok with profiting out of people misery and misfortunes, just look how much money they are making out of the war industry these days. They simply are scum, look around yourself they do corporations interests not people.

      • Dr. Bluefall@toast.oooEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        Forcing people to fight over invisible line on a map and pushing them into a meat grinder is evil.

        I’m glad you’re opposed to the 2014 annexation of Crimea and the current invasion, very nice! Russia really should stop sending wave after wave of soldiers into the meat grinder just so they can seize more Ukrainian territory.

        They are totally ok with profiting out of people misery and misfortunes, just look how much money they are making out of the war industry these days. They simply are scum, look around yourself they do corporations interests not people.

        That is not an answer to my question.

        • sandbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          I’m not the commenter you’re arguing with, I’m just reading the conversation, but you’re not engaging with their substantive point, you’re assuming that they hold a position that they don’t hold and you’re arguing with that position instead. I think you both make a valid argument and it’s a little frustrating seeing such interesting debates just go ignored because people miss the point