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Re: US Sends Ukraine Confiscated Ammunition From Iran + Ukraines NEW Invisibility Tec
US Sends Confiscated Ammunition From Iran, to Ukraine
First Time Washington Has Transferred Weapons Seized From Other Countries Since Putin Invaded
BBC 5 OCT 2023
Ukraines' 18th Army Aviation Brigade resupplying their helicopters
The US has sent Ukraine more than a million rounds of ammunition seized from Iran, the US military said on Wednesday.
It is believed this is the first time that Washington has transferred weapons confiscated from another country to Ukraine since the country was invaded by Russia in February last year.
The move came days after Congress axed support for Ukraine from the funding deal cobbled together to avoid a government shutdown.
Iran has been supplying Moscow with drones, which have been used against civilian and military targets in Ukraine.
US naval forces have for years been intercepting fishing vessels suspected of carrying Iranian weapons destined for Yemen.
US Navy Seizures
The US Central Command said a navy ship seized the 1.1 million rounds from a vessel that was being used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to arm Houthi rebels in Yemen’s civil war in defiance of a UN arms embargo.
The 7.62mm ammunition works with the Soviet-era Kalashnikov assault rifles still being used by many Ukrainian military units.
Earlier this week, US president Joe Biden pleaded with Congress to approve more funds for Kyiv, warning that Ukrainians would die “needlessy” if support to the country was cut off.
He had asked for $24 billion (£19.8bn) to support the next tranche of funding. But Congress refused to back even a dramatically reduced package of $6bn. The US has provided more than $113bn to support Ukraine’s resistance since February last year.
Support has included more than 300 million rounds of ammunition and grenades.
But continuing support for Ukraine could prove difficult, with many Republicans, who now have a narrow majority in the House of Representatives, opposing further aid.
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