Ukraine still has great need of radio-electronic and (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) ISR capabilities to counter Russian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), fire-control capabilities, and Russian ISR.
Poltorak says that the information will be available after his visit to Washington, D.C.
Javelins in Ukraine’s hands are able to change the way the Russian military perceive the conflict in eastern Ukraine and make them “rethink” their actions.
Deliveries of Javelin anti-tank systems would be funded by the United States, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, according to a video uploaded on Facebook.
Chief of the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces Gen. Viktor Muzhenko expects U.S. Javelin anti-tank systems will be delivered to the Ukrainian army within six months.
Independent Russian political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin says Russian President Vladimir Putin may react to the supply of U.S. Javelin systems to Ukraine by rocking the boat in Donbas, according to the Ukrainian news outlet Glavred.info.
The Ukrainian Army has launched training of operators of Javelin anti-tank missile systems, according to Ukrainian Military Pages.
Russian authorities intend to discredit Ukraine following the decision by U.S. President Donald Trump' administration to supply lethal weapons to Ukraine, according to HuffPost.
U.S. plans to arm Ukraine infuriated Russia and aggravated deteriorating relations, but a bigger worry is the weapons falling into enemy hands—as has happened before, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The U.S. Department of State has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Georgia for Javelin Missiles and Command Launch Units for an estimated cost of $75 million, according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency.
The issue of U.S. supplies to Ukraine of Javelin anti-tank missile systems was not on the agenda of the meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, the Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, said in an interview with Fox News.
On the eve of a possible positive decision by the United States to provide lethal aid to Ukraine, MP Dmytro Tymchuk, who also leads the Information Resistance online community, elaborated on the issue of American ATGMs, which is being criticized by certain "military experts."