Referring to the ongoing Russian special military operation in Ukraine, the US general added that now at least, Kiev “has what they need to survive and fight and try to protect their sovereign country without turning this into World War III.”
“This $600 million drawdown includes additional arms, munitions, and equipment from US Department of Defense inventories. This drawdown will bring the total US military assistance for Ukraine to approximately $15.8 billion since the beginning of this Administration,” he added.
He said that he West’s “dangerous and provocative” actions took aim at Russia and may lead Russia and the United States "to the path of direct military confrontation.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov for his part stressed in an interview with the French TV channel LCI that although “there is resistance and material damage caused by the supply of these weapons [to Kiev from Western countries]”, the arms are “not enough to stop our advance, and it will not prevent us from achieving our goals.”