NATO’s top commander urged the U.S. Senate to strengthen the Ukrainian military “as much as possible”
The Supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe, General Curtis Scaparrotti said in favour of granting Ukraine lethal weapons.
He stated at hearings in Senatorial Committee on armed forces, reports Voice of America.
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“They (the Ukrainian military) opposed to the so-called separatists, who are actually Russian puppets. Russia is supplying them with lethal weapons and also experiencing there are some new military methods. We need to strengthen the Ukrainian armed forces as much as possible,” said the General, Scaparrotti.
According to the commander of NATO, the Russians used the conflict in Ukraine to test their newest technologies and methods of war.
“Among them is the reduction of the time interval between when the detected target, and when it can be affected, including using drones,” said Scaparrotti and noted that this is a problem for US, because these methods are Russians begin to apply and other terrorists.
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“We are working on these technologies. Work with Ukraine and provides us with the opportunity to test some of the things that we do. We need to provide them with early warning systems and the like, so they can withstand what do the Russian puppets,” said General Curtis, Scaparrotti.
Recall that in early March, the House of representatives of the Congress of the United States of America supported the allocation of $ 150 million in military support to Ukraine. The funds will be available for the Pentagon to provide Ukraine with military support, including, in particular, the provision of lethal weapons of a defensive nature, and equipment, logistics support, intelligence support of the Ukrainian army and national security forces, the training of personnel of the Ukrainian armed forces and the like.