US says world is granting every request on Ukraine’s latest weapons wish list

Published June 16, 2022 11:18am ET



‘AS RAPIDLY AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE’: Despite the constant calls from Ukraine for more weapons, faster, U.S. defense leaders at yesterday’s donor’s meeting at NATO headquarters insist they are filling the requests for heavy weapons at a record pace, “as rapidly as humanly possible.”

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley met with Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov and Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, the commander in chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, along with representatives of nearly 50 countries that make up the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, and went down Ukraine’s list of most urgent needs one by one.

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