A member of the Democratic Congress rejected the statements of the Pentagon that she interrupted the expeditions of American arms and military ammunition in Ukraine to reduce American stocks.
Representative Adam Smith, a classification member of the Chamber Armed Services Committee, told NBC News that the United States did not face a disturbing shortage of weapons and suggested that the decision was part of a broader program to reduce military aid to the country to combat Russia’s invasion.
“We are at no time lower, in stock, that we were not in the three and a half years of the Ukrainian conflict,” said Smith. The Washington legislator added that its staff “saw the number” of stocks available, and they do not justify suspending aid to Ukraine.
Politico initially indicated that the decision to take the break in arms expeditions had been led by Elbridge Colby, the choice of President Donald Trump to serve as a defender for the defense for politics.
Colby has long argued that the United States should release its commitment to help Ukraine, calling for concentration on US national security to move to China and the Indo-Pacific Region.
However, the break was in fact a “unilateral step” crossed by Hegseth, Colby supporting the decision, according to NBC News, which quotes several anonymous sources. This is the third time that Hegseth has been trying to stop military aid in Ukraine, with its previous efforts in February and could reverse days later.
Hegseth’s latest decision follows a service note that he sent by ordering the Pentagon’s joint staff to examine American ammunition stocks. The examination revealed that if certain high precision ammunition is low, the levels have not dropped below the critical minimums, sources told NBC News.
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell addressed the exam during a press briefing on Wednesday. “We always assess our ammunition and where we send them and part of what we wanted to do here in the department was, once again, to create a framework,” said Parnell.
“We cannot give arms to everyone around the world. We must monitor America and defend our homeland and our troops in the world. ”
Elsewhere, Trump complained Thursday that the United States under the administration of President Joe Biden had given “so many weapons”.
“And we work with [Ukraine] And try to help them, but we don’t have it [completely stopped]”Said Trump.” You know, Biden emptied our country in all by giving them weapons, and we must make sure that we have enough for ourselves. »»
Moscow launched the largest missile and drone dams against kyiv since the day since the Russian president Vladimir Putin launched his invasion three years ago. The attack occurred only a few hours after Trump said that he had disappointing a disappointing telephone call with Putin about the end of the conflict.
“I made no progress with him,” Trump told journalists on Thursday.
The Ministry of Defense refused to comment more when contacted by the Daily beast.
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