New shipments of US weapons arrive in Ukraine
A senior Pentagon official said Monday that the first shipments of a new batch of US military aid to Ukraine have arrived at the country's borders for delivery to the Ukrainian military.
"Four flights arrived in the region from the United States yesterday, carrying various equipment," the official said, asking not to be identified.
A fifth flight is expected in the next 24 hours "which means five flights in a few days" since President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a new $800 million package of military aid to Ukraine.
In the coming days, American soldiers deployed in the eastern region of NATO since the beginning of the Russian war on Ukraine will begin training Ukrainian soldiers to use M777 howitzers, the new generation of artillery pieces that the United States decided to deliver for the first time to the Ukrainian army.
Even if their use is not fundamentally different from the artillery pieces familiar to the Ukrainian army, these guns use 155mm shells used by the Allies while Ukraine has only Russian-made 152mm shells.
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