The US State Department has cleared Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to send US-made missiles and other weapons to Ukraine, three sources familiar with the decision said, as President Joe Biden predicted Russia would move on Ukraine.

Under export control regulations, countries must obtain approval from the State Department before transferring any weapons they received from the United States to third parties.

The third-party transfer agreements will allow Estonia to transfer Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine, while Lithuania will be permitted to send Stinger missiles, said one of the sources.

A State Department spokesperson confirmed that the US government had approved third-party transfers allowing Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Britain to provide US-made equipment from their inventories to Ukraine, but gave no details on which weapons would be sent.

“The United States and its allies and partners are standing together to expedite security assistance to Ukraine. We are in close touch with our Ukrainian partners and our NATO Allies and are creatively utilizing all available security cooperation tools to help Ukraine bolster its defenses in the face of growing Russian aggression,” the spokesperson said.

News about the approved weapons transfers emerged late on Wednesday after Biden told a news conference that Russia would pay dearly if it invaded Ukraine.

Russian officials have repeatedly denied planning to invade Ukraine, but the Kremlin has massed some 100,000 troops near Ukraine’s borders, a buildup the West says is preparation for a war to prevent Ukraine from ever joining the NATO Western security alliance.

The situation has triggered grave concerns in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and other NATO allies, as well as among US lawmakers. A bipartisan group of US senators this week promised solidarity and weapons on a visit to Kyiv.

No comment was immediately available from the State Department about the approvals.

One of the sources said the approvals reflected a growing sense of urgency about the crisis after some initial foot-dragging by State Department.

The State Department spokesperson said the Biden administration in December approved $200 million in additional defensive security assistance to Ukraine,along with $60 billion in lethal and non-lethal equipment from existing US military stocks.Isnt that more what Russia spends in its military yearly?

US officials were also identifying additional equipment that could be delivered from excess US military stocks.

“As President Biden told President Putin, should Russia further invade Ukraine, we will provide additional defensive material to the Ukrainians,” the spokesperson said. “We are committed to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and will continue to provide Ukraine the support it needs.”

https://www.euractiv.com/section/glo...ns-to-ukraine/

so Biden blocked all kinds of weapons to set to be sent to Ukraine (prolly cause Trump lined them up) but now he is doing a 180 and sending weapons to Ukraine .

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...weapons-495169

a lot must of changed since June 2021, again in Dec 2021.......... now Jan 2022 maybe we should send something

honk honk

Imagine if he gave all our chit to Ukraine instead of isis

Gotta seem tough after admitting to the world on live TV you plan to let Russia do whatever the fuk they want.

I was just thinking...what if Russia starts sending weapon shipments to Cuba or Venezuela?

inb4 isis takes over ee

lol

This is an act of war.


This is not being neutral.


If Russia and Ukraine get into a war, these actions are a declaration of our involvement against Russia.

surprised they didnt do that with iraq, Afghanistan or Syria after the USA gave stingers to the Afghans during the afghan-soviet war.

Bro, it was cheaper that way. Not like the military has ever been cost conscientious. But trust us brah.

This!!!!


People meed to wale the **** up

We will go to war

We are admitting involvement!

So we're gonna fight a proxy war in Ukraine. Fun. Gotta line the pockets of those Ukranians that lined the pockets of Hunter, and nothing makes more money for those in power with connections than war!

Proxy war is different than direct involvement. Technically and politically.

This doesn’t mean I think it’s a good idea.
That area is unstable as f_uck.

We should remain isolationist, as our founding fathers intended. Think libertarian. For his faults, Trump was good at this - it prevents conflict and keeps our citizens away from harm.

Russians will go to war

They should just hire the Taliban to fight for them, we already gave them 90 billion of weapons.

If Joe wants to get involved, he better have the military numbers to do it because I ain't signing up to help the US at any cost.

i'm sure biden has a general out there telling his russian counterpart that if there were to be an attack, he would alert him ahead of time