Posted on 01/22/2024 4:27:24 PM PST by marcusmaximus
While speaking at a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York City on Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the United States of providing Ukraine with "old junk" weapons while building up its military complex.
In November, The Washington Post reported that of the $68 billion in military aid Congress approved for Ukraine, nearly 90 percent went back to the U.S. to build new weapons or replace ones sent to Ukraine from American stockpiles. The Post wrote that a Ukrainian official said "every single state in the U.S. contributes to this effort," thus creating more American jobs.
The Russian state news agency Sputnik said Lavrov cited the 90 percent figure to the UN Security Council, but he also claimed without offering evidence that the U.S. is updating its weapons with assistance funds for Kyiv while its "old ancient junk is being used in Ukraine."
The top Russian diplomat said the U.S. is treating the conflict in Ukraine "not as a war that has already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives...but as a profitable business project."
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The “Chinese journal” you are linking is a blog with 4 followers and 300 views.
It is partly right in what Kinzhal is a quasy-ballistic missile derived from Iskander, which everybody known anyway. The point is that NATO doesn’t have anything similar in capability and nothing to counter it.
I haven’t linked to a Chinese journal.
You linked to the fake news speculating around fair Chinese journal.
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