“We will start shipping Phoenix Ghost systems later this month.
Deliveries will be carried out on a regular basis, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
Plans to provide Ukraine with the indicated loitering ammunition were reported in the Pentagon in July.
At the same time, the United States is considering the possibility of supplying Ukraine with new types of weapons that "would make it possible to change the situation on the battlefield" in the southeast of the country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier that the situation in Ukraine shows that the US is trying to prolong the ongoing conflict.