“I will also say that incredible innovations are taking place ... One country, which I will not name, had Harpoons ... sea-based,” TASS quotes him.

According to Laplante, the partners suggested that the United States "do something with them."

American specialists removed the missiles from the ship of the mentioned state, placed them on trucks with platforms, while others had a power source.

The objects were connected by a cable.

The deputy head of the Pentagon specified that US military instructors also trained the Ukrainian military on their territory in the use of new weapons at the end of May.

On July 24, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Russian troops had destroyed a Ukrainian warship and a warehouse of American Harpoon missiles in the port of Odessa with long-range precision missiles.

It was reported that during the impact, the production facilities of the enterprise for the repair and modernization of the ship structure of the Naval Forces of Ukraine were disabled.