Original title: Amid tensions between Russia and Ukraine, Ukraine received the second batch of arms aid from the United States
China News Service, January 24. According to Reuters, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Reznikov said on the 23rd that the country has received a second shipment of arms from the United States, which is a total of $200 million for the United States’ defense against Ukraine. part of the aid.
A Ukrainian soldier in a trench in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on December 3, 2021.
“Second batch of arms received in Kiev! Over 80 tons of weapons to strengthen Ukraine’s defenses, from our American friends! This is not the end,” Reznikov wrote on social media.
The U.S. government approved a defense aid package for Ukraine in December 2021, and the first batch of about 90 tons of “lethal weapons”, including ammunition, arrived in the Ukrainian capital on the 22nd. Russia has repeatedly urged the United States to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine.
Recently, relations between Ukraine and Russia have deteriorated rapidly, with the two sides deploying a large number of military personnel and equipment in the border areas of the two countries. The United States, Ukraine and NATO have said that Russia has assembled a large number of troops near the eastern border of Ukraine and has the potential of “invasion”. Russia denied it, emphasizing that NATO activities threaten Russia’s border security, and Russia has the right to mobilize troops within its borders to defend its territory.
