The US delivered weapons “quickly” to Ukraine, directly training to use

The above weapons include 18 155 mm howitzers, 40,000 shells, 200 M113 armored personnel carriers, 11 Mi-17 helicopters and 100 multi-purpose armored vehicles. This is the first time the US has sent grenades to Ukraine.

The weapons are part of an additional $800 million in military aid to Ukraine announced last week by US President Joe Biden.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the first shipment arrived at the border with Ukraine 48 hours after President Biden authorized Washington to deliver military aid to Kiev. Mr Kirby described the shipping as happening at “unprecedented speed”.

A shipment of US military aid to Ukraine in February. Photo: Reuters

In addition, Mr. Kirby said that the troops deployed to the eastern flank of the territory of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) since Russia launched the military operation in Ukraine will begin training soldiers. Ukraine how to use howitzer “in the next few days”.

“There will be a small number of Ukrainian soldiers trained in how to use howitzers, and then they will return to their own country to teach others,” Mr Kirby said.

Ukrainian soldiers operate a 2A65 Msta-B artillery gun during drills near the border with Crimea in Kherson region, Ukraine. Photo published on January 28. Photo: Reuters

The firm Reuters According to the source, the artillery training will take place outside Ukraine. The US plan was to teach some Ukrainians how to use new weapons such as artillery and radar, and then have these people instruct their comrades.

Previously, the US trained Ukrainian forces on the Switchblade drone.

In addition, among the weapons announced by the Biden administration last week were 500 more Javelin anti-tank missiles, 500 more Stinger air defense missiles, 10 counter-reflection radars, 2 air surveillance radars, 200 aircraft carriers M113 armored vehicles, 100 Humvee armored vehicles and about 40,000 rounds of ammunition.

Last week, US media reported that Russia warned the US of “unforeseen consequences” if Washington continued to arm Ukraine. Russia has targeted North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) arms shipments to Ukraine.

On the morning of April 18, a missile attack on a logistics center in Lviv destroyed large shipments of foreign weapons that had arrived in Ukraine in the past six days from the United States and European countries.