{"id":76736,"date":"2017-12-23T11:27:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76736"},"modified":"2017-12-23T11:27:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:27:05","slug":"us-to-provide-anti-tank-weapons-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76736","title":{"rendered":"US to provide anti-tank weapons to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76737\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76737\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Javelin-missile-25-July-2017-500x302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Javelin-missile-25-July-2017-500x302.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Javelin-missile-25-July-2017-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Javelin-missile-25-July-2017.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/12\/22\/politics\/us-ukraine-anti-tank-weapons-russia\/\">CNN<\/a>, the US State Department has said that the US will provide anti-tank weapons to the Ukraine to help them defend against Russia-backed separatists.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The State Department said the &#8220;US assistance is entirely defensive in nature, and as we have always said, Ukraine is a sovereign country and has a right to defend itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the weapons being sent are US-made Javelin anti-tank missiles, the official said.<br \/>\nMembers of Congress and the US-backed Ukrainian government had long requmested anti-tank weapons to boost Kiev in its fight against Russian-backed separatists.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/sources-trump-expected-announce-approval-plan-sell-anti\/story?id=51957745\">ABC News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The total defense package of $47 million includes the sale of 210 anti-tank missiles and 35 launchers. Additional supplies will need to be purchased, according to a senior State Department official. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Russians aren&#8217;t pleased;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Sergei Ryabkov, Russia&#8217;s deputy foreign minister, responded harshly to the news of the pending deal in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States in a certain sense crossed the line, announcing the intention to transfer weapons of direct damaging action to Ukraine,&#8221; the statement said, translated from Russian. &#8220;American weapons can lead to new victims in our neighboring country, to which we cannot remain indifferent.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN, the US State Department has said that the US will provide anti-tank weapons &hellip; <a title=\"US to provide anti-tank weapons to Ukraine\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76736\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US to provide anti-tank weapons to Ukraine<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}