Arming Ukraine

The US Department of Defense is sending drones and hazmat gear to Ukraine

"The US Department of Defense has made the Decision to provide the Ukrainian government with NBC suits, masks, and drones. Since the fight for their country hasn't let up, the US Department of Defense is going to keep doing everything it can to support them. For Ukraine," according to the statement.

The Italian parliament just greenlit sending weapons over to Ukraine

So, Mario Draghi mentioned this in an interview with Corriere della Sera, according to Reuters.

“The Decision to ship the arms was basically a unanimous vote in the US Congress. I mean, the stakes are pretty obvious: you've got people being attacked on one side, and then there's the aggressor's military on the other,” Draghi said.

The Netherlands is stepping up by sending heavy weaponry, including armored vehicles,

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ironseal said:https://twitter.com/KyleJGlen/status...WBP1QrYWA&s=19

Thanks 🙂

Rachel Richardson said:Thanks 🙂

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Germans are selling badgers to Greece 🙂 😠
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Scholz’s press conference is happening right now
Lots of talking, but honestly, he's barely saying anything useful.

There isn't any heavy weaponry coming from Germany.🙂

Romania is moving fast to change their laws so they can start sending heavy weaponry to Ukraine.
https://ukranews.com/en/news/850937-...-ukraine-media

coastalbison6 said:Germans are selling badgers to Greece 🙂 😠
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Absolute cowards. If you ask me, I wouldn't take a single cent of German money into Ukraine after the war is over.

The US is sending over artillery. Soon enough, they'll be hitting targets deep inside Russia.

... and Canada 👍

Canada's gonna ship some heavy artillery over to Ukraine, according to Joe Biden. He dropped the news at an event in New Hampshire earlier today; I guess we might see more specifics in the next few days

Honestly, I wouldn’t be shocked if a few of our Mi-17s were already making their way toward Ukraine. There's a massive amount of chatter on Twitter right now about discussions involving the Czech Republic and the US regarding weapons shipments. Americans have been getting pretty aggressive with their rearmament efforts lately,
If our leadership is actually smart, they'll keep this under wraps and just swap them out for Black Hawks down the road. Moving helicopters is probably the easiest way to do it—shipping tanks by rail or moving heavy artillery tends to draw way too much attention.

Did the Pentagon announce that Ukraine received more aircraft?

Edit: ah, I see "aircraft," my auto-translate tripped up.

Arthur Watson4 said:Did the Pentagon announce that Ukraine received more aircraft?

Edit: ah, I see "aircraft," my auto-translate tripped up.

https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/19-apr...-have-received

Or in plain English: the Secretary of Defense just stated that Ukraine recently "received additional aircraft and aircraft parts to help them get more planes in the air."

Arthur Watson4 said:Did the Pentagon announce that Ukraine received more aircraft?

Edit: ah, I see "aircraft," my auto-translate tripped up.

The truth.
NEW: @PentagonPresSec just mentioned that Ukraine "have received additional aircraft and the aircraft parts to help them get more more aircraft in the air" recently

I really hope those invaders finally back off 👍

https://twitter.com/phildstewart/sta...23635976151048

Looks like another massive military aid package worth about $800 million is headed our way from the US.

Looks like the US is dropping another 7 aircraft into the mix for Ukraine over the next 24 hours

The latest shipment is pretty heavy too—we're talking 200 M113 armored personnel carriers, 10 anti-aircraft radars, 500 USA anti-tank missiles, and about 30,000 sets of body armor and helmets.

AeroVironment Inc. is handing over over 100 drone systems to the Department of Defense and territorial forces in Ukraine

So, this Fortune 500 leader in multi-domain intelligent robotics just announced they’re donating more than 100 Palantir drone systems along with some training services to the Department of Defense and those territorial units fighting in Ukraine against Russia right now, I guess.

hollowdriver13 said:https://twitter.com/phildstewart/sta...23635976151048

Looks like another massive military aid package worth about $800 million is headed our way from the US.

CNN: The USA is getting ready to drop another $800 million in military aid for Ukraine.

According to officials and people close to the planning process, they’re still hashing out the specifics, maybe. One high-ranking administration official mentioned that this could all get approved within the next 36 hours.

This latest round would be coming just a week after Biden's administration cleared another $800 million security package, which, for the first time since the invasion started, actually included artillery and anti-aircraft radar.