Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States has sent over $8 billion worth of military aid to support Kyiv’s war effort. This massive arms transfer has included a wide range of weapons, from anti-armor missiles to helicopters and beyond.
With the constant flow of news about the war, it can be hard to keep track of all these weapons packages, so we at Responsible Statecraft decided to put together a timeline of every arms shipment that has been announced since the war began. And whenever a new transfer is announced, we’ll update this page to reflect it.
Before jumping into the timeline, it is important to note a couple of things. First, this list only contains publicly announced information. The Pentagon has admitted to sending at least one type of missile that was never mentioned in their press releases, so there’s reason to believe that this list is not exhaustive.
Second, there are two different sources for these lethal aid packages. One, which has made up the vast majority of transfers to date, is known as a “presidential drawdown.” This means that the White House and Pentagon agree to send weapons to Ukraine from U.S. stockpiles, after which DoD can use the funds to replenish their stocks by purchasing new arms from defense contractors. Biden has used this authority an unprecedented 18 times in order to send weapons to Ukraine, with most of the funding coming from money that Congress has set aside to arm Kyiv....
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The spokesman for the General Staff of Iran's Armed Forces issues a stark warning to the senior authorities in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq against cooperating with the United States and the Israeli regime against the Islamic Republic.
Speaking during a televised interview on Friday, Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi cautioned the officials that any cooperation with Washington or Tel Aviv would bear severe consequences.
"If you cooperate with the United States and the Zionist regime, we will crush you; you will be trampled under our feet and will never enjoy security again," he said.
The spokesman also warned against allowing terrorist groups to use the region's territory as a corridor.
"If the leaders of Iraq’s northern region open a corridor for these [terrorist] groups, we will strike all the infrastructure and facilities of this region; we will show no mercy to our enemies."
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Iran strongly welcomes the escorting of oil tankers and the claimed presence of US forces to ensure passage through the Strait of Hormuz, a spokesperson for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has said.
Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini made the remarks on Thursday, responding to recent statements by the US president and the White House spokesperson.
“Iran strongly welcomes the escorting of oil tankers and the claimed presence of US forces to facilitate passage through the Strait of Hormuz,” he remarked.
“In fact, we are awaiting their arrival.”
Brigadier General Naeini further said Iran recommends that before taking such a decision, Americans recall the incident in 1987 when the American supertanker Bridgeton struck a mine and caught fire, as well as tankers that have been targeted recently.
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Iraq's Nujaba resistance group has vowed to avenge the assassination of a resistance commander in a terrorist US strike.
In a statement on Friday, Nujaba offered its deepest condolences over the assassination of Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah Commander Abu Hassan al-Furaiji in a "treacherous and cowardly" American attack in Babylon.
The movement stressed that the killing of al-Furaiji, who played an important role in purging the country of terrorists, constitutes "a clear violation of Iraq’s sovereignty" and "a deliberate insult to the country’s official military institution, namely the Popular Mobilization Forces (al-Hashd al-Sha'abi)", which operates under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.
The statement stressed that al-Furaiji’s killing will "undoubtedly not go unanswered or unpunished."
"The fragile language of diplomacy is no longer effective against an enemy that understands nothing but the language of force and gunpowder," the movement said, warning ...
