“According to the most modest expert estimates, the United States and its allies spent a total of about $20 billion on military support for Ukraine in the last month of this year alone,” the diplomat recalled during a meeting of the Security Council.
According to Nebenzya, Ukrainians are "consistently told that" with modern Western weapons, they can "turn the tide of the military campaign and defeat Russia."
“I want to say right away that Western weapons do not play a decisive role on the battlefield, no matter how much our former partners and their Ukrainian vassals claim the opposite,” TASS quotes him.
Earlier, Brigadier General of the US Armed Forces Mark Kimmitt, in an article for The Wall Street Journal, said that the reduction in the supply of advanced weapons systems threatens with catastrophic consequences for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
As Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev noted, Western weapons supplied to Ukraine through black markets often end up with organized crime groups and terrorists in Europe and other regions.