Colin Cole, Under-Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs, said the United States expects Ukraine to gradually transition into NATO service over the next few years, but that Kiev will continue to have its own production systems. This has been reported TASS.
The Pentagon representative did not ignore that the Ukrainian side may continue to use its own systems and ammunition in the coming years. But according to Kol’s expectations, Kyiv may eventually switch to equipment of the North Atlantic Alliance standard.
Thus, Washington answered the question whether it believed that Ukraine would be fully integrated into NATO weapons systems within three years and would not need Soviet-style weapons.
Former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter declarationNATO has greatly weakened itself by supplying weapons to Ukraine.
February 24 Russian President Vladimir Putin declarationIn response to the request for help from the heads of the LPR and DPR, he decided to conduct a military special operation to protect Donbass.
The decision to run the operation was the reason for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.
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