The US and its allies are working on providing Ukraine with anti-ship missiles as the Western push to flood weapons into the country continues.
“We have started consulting with allies on providing anti-ship missiles to Ukraine,” a senior Biden administration official said on the sidelines of a NATO conference in Brussels on Thursday, according to Reuters.
“There may be some technical challenges with making that happen but that is something that we are consulting with allies and starting to work on,” the official added.
Since Russia’s invasion started, the US has pledged over $1 billion in new military aid for Ukraine. Last week, Biden announced an $800 million weapons package that includes anti-aircraft missiles, anti-tank missiles, and armed drones.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the NATO summit via video link on Thursday and pleaded with the military alliance to send more weapons, including warplanes and tanks. Ukraine is also seeking more advanced air missile defense systems than the shoulder-fired weapons the US and NATO have been providing.
Ukraine’s forces are only trained to use older Russian-made weapons systems, such as the S-300, Zelensky asked Congress for last week. The Wall Street Journal reported that the US is sending Ukraine Soviet air defense systems it secretly acquired but said the S-300s weren’t included. The report said the US is sending the SA-8, also known as the 9K33 OSA, a mobile surface-to-air missile system that the Soviet Union developed in the 1960s.
Somebody please tell the American fascist regime that the Nazi’s don’t have a coastline anymore, except for majority Russian Odessa which is too far from Russian ships and which is about to be liberated any day, anyway.
Btw, Good luck ridding Europe from all these MANPADS and anti-ship missiles when the ukraine is de-nazified and Europe flooded by blue eyed, all aryan ukies…
What else can anyone possibly see when they look into Joe Biden’s blank eyes but a victim of advanced cognitive decline who is totally unfit to be the POTUS and who is incapable of recognizing let alone of preventing a nuclear confrontation with Russia. It now up to the US military to stage a military coupe to remove the suicidal Biden and Harris regime from office before they blunder into WWIII while trying to prevent the inevitable defeat of the NATO Ukraine shithole by the Russians
Oh boy. A military coup or Biden. Will we call the general in charge Mr. President like they do in Egypt with el-Sisi? As much as I can’t stand Biden, I’ll pass on that idea.
Wouldn’t Kamala take charge? What a horrendous thought!
I’ll take a pass on WWIII anytime and live to love a sane military junta
No need for a military coup. Biden and Harris are not in charge. The MIC is in charge and has been for a long time.
You confuse the MIC’s deep state neocon chicken hawks and weapons industry oligarchs with the US Military. The US Military knows they are the expendable cannon fodder for the former two.
In the US this passes for diplomacy.
Our “allies” do what the boss tells them to do, just like Soviet Union’s former “allies” (the Warsaw Pact nations) did what the Kremlin told them to do. No difference.
““There may be some technical challenges with making that happen…”- – as in they get blown up the minute they cross the border…
Wait a minute- haven’t I read in various media sources that Ukraine is winning their war hands-down and the Russians are on the verge of collapse just any minute, and that Russian troops are so bad at this whole war thing they’re surrendering in droves after abandoning their weapons and vehicles? This just doesn’t make sense- if the Ukraine is winning so handily, why is there a need to keep shoveling weapons at them hand over fist? Can’t they use all those weapons and vehicles the Russians have conveniently abandoned? Since the Ukraine is so close to total victory over Russia, the West should be scaling back weapons donations, right? It’s not like the Ukraine is EVER going to even make a pretense of paying anyone back for all of this hardware we’ve given them, are they?
The fog of war makes all information unreliable, but based on what I’ve heard the “abandoned” tanks are actually useless hulks. The Javelins, etc. seem to have made tanks an interesting historical artifact. In particular, I read a story by an old Marine, now a journalist, who arrived in Kyiv and ran into a younger Marine who was there as a “foreign legionnaire” so to speak. That kid’s take was that Kyiv can’t be taken like Fallujah was, in house-to-house infantry action supported by armor, because armor is now too vulnerable.
But like I said, it’s hard to take any reports at face value. The only really guaranteed thing is that the involved regimes will tell the truth only when the truth makes them look good, and lie about everything else.
Old Marines seldom become experts on new military weaponry matters because 1) the technology has greatly surpassed their knowledge (most of the time), and 2) an old Marine might have been a Clerk/Cook/Baker/Electrician/Plumber/Air Traffic Controller or whatever.
Retired military personnel like me tend to embellish what they did in the Service (unlike me), and that’s why most of them “don’t talk about the war”, because they never got close to combat of any sort, and that would ruin their persona if they told the truth. Great book on the subject, “Stolen Valor”.