Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Wednesday the country was set to receive Stinger and Javelin missiles from abroad, as well as another shipment of Turkish drones.
Highlights
- Ukraine’s Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Wednesday the country was set to receive Stinger and Javelin missiles from abroad, as well as another shipment of Turkish drones.
- Western countries have pledged to supply Ukraine with weapons to fend off a Russian invasion.
- Reznikov: Western countries are set to send missiles and drones to Ukraine in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in June 2014.
- Heavily-armed Ukraine has been in the throes of a civil war with Russia since March 2011, but Russia denies any involvement in the conflict with the West since it emerged in March 2012, the U.S.
- military has been involved in the collapse of the Soviet Union in Ukraine.