Ukrainian servicemen have undergone training with US-supplied Javeline anti-tank missile systems and are now ready to use them, Ukrainian Chief of General Staff Viktor Muzhenko said Thursday
KIEV (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 16th August, 2018) Ukrainian servicemen have undergone training with US-supplied Javeline anti-tank missile systems and are now ready to use them, Ukrainian Chief of General Staff Viktor Muzhenko said Thursday.
"The unit, which has Javelin in its arsenal, has undergone training and is ready to use it [the system]," Muzhenko told BBC news Ukraine in an interview.
Javelin systems are part of the military aid which the United States consistently provides to Ukraine. The 2018 US defense budget, signed by US President Donald Trump in December, allocated $350 million in security aid for Kiev. In February, US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch said that the United States had provided over $850 million in security aid to Kiev since 2014.
Moscow has repeatedly warned against supplying weapons to Ukraine, saying that this would result in an escalation of the military conflict in the country's eastern Donbas region, ongoing since 2014. This stance has also been supported by a number of European officials.
