US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Helen Procurement Lord declared that, Washington is concerned about the search for a mediator, which will ultimately be responsible for the supply of American arms to Ukraine. Such a scheme in relation to a number of other countries have already implemented in the framework of the program for the Protection of National Defense, which is backed by the law in the US. So, US through intermediary companies sell certain types of weapons in Japan, Romania, South Korea, Saudi Arabia.
Against this background, the US Congress approved the allocation of Ukraine program quarters of a billion dollars in the coming year to purchase lethal weapons.
Initially it was planned to allocate no more than 100 million dollars, however kongressmeny- "hawks" have decided, that "the support for Ukraine" in the financial-military plan is necessary to increase. the elections…
announced, that the amount of 250 million will be carried out purchases "lethal defensive weapons". As it appears, US anti-missile systems, too, it is referred to the defensive, but when it comes to Russian supplies to anyone anti-aircraft missile complexes, then immediately declare Russia's air defense almost kind of modern offensive weapons.
This week in Ukraine, by the way, It was first made fire with American Javelin ATGM. President Poroshenko called it "a great day for Ukraine's defense capability".
