Ukraine’s State Concern Ukroboronprom is for the first time showcasing advanced developments of the Ukrainian defense industry at an international arms exhibition held by AUSA (Association of the U.S. Army) in Washington, D.C., according to the Ukrainian company’s press service.
A shipment of U.S. military equipment has been unloaded at a Baltic Sea port in Poland as Russia prepares to conduct war games across the border in Belarus, according to The Associated Press (AP).
The Trump administration is preparing to restore the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies under a program that had been sharply curtailed amid an outcry over police use of armored vehicles and other war-fighting gear to confront protesters, according to The Associated Press (AP).
United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker has said U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis brought military equipment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine during his visit to Ukraine on August 23-24.
The latest observations by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine near Novoazovsk, Donetsk region, on numeroues “military type” vehicles moving near the checkpoint, along with statements from the Ukrainian Armed Forces and social media reports within a few days of the SMM’s report, indicate a possible Russian military buildup along Ukraine’s eastern border, the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab wrote in a report titled “Crossing In Plain Sight.”