‘You have exploded the myth of Putin’s invincibility,’ Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain told Ukrainian lawmakers, one of several Western sources of cheerleading on Tuesday.
Altogether, six electrical substations were struck along the railways in central and western Ukraine, according to a top rail official. The rail system is the country’s lifeline for humanitarian and military supplies.
this is a second mission for , former military pilots. what is it like to fly a giant aircraft full of explosives? i mean, you obviously know that there is explicit down there. , and that s it. you try to take off nice and easy on land ice and easy. so you don t have any cargo shifting during the process. every, day on my tractor trailers arrive packed with explosives from ammo depots across the country. they line up at dover, dubbed the superport for military equipment to ukraine. we ve moved over 7 million pounds of material to ukraine, on over 60 missions. colonel barry flak commit the maintenance crew bent over that does the heavy lifting of ordinance. can you walk us through some of the weapons that you have moved out of here into eastern europe? we ve moved anything from nine millimeter pistols to javelins to stinger missiles. those javelins and stingers
courtney qb has an exclusive look at the state side operation to get many of these weapons transported from the u.s. to ukraine. this giant cargo plane, loaded with lethal and vital cargo, destined for the ukrainian military. every few hours here at dover air force base, these commercial cargo planes depart, the pilot, civilians. with president biden pledging another 20 billion dollars and u.s. military assistance, the u.s. military is working overtime to deliver. this is ammunition for 155 millimeter howitzers. large artillery pieces which u.s. defense officials hope will stop russia s new advance in the east of ukraine. we are in the cargo hold of a 7:47. it can hold about 42 pallets like these, each of these carry 72 artillery rounds. so, we re talking about 3000 rounds in this plane. they re being loaded now, they could be in the hands of the ukrainian military in a matter of just a day or two.
have been instrumental in taking out russian tanks and planes. it s a fast pace ballet of lethal weapons in a giant, mechanized warehouse. i see it on the news that, you know, they re actually using the equipment that we re sending out. when you re the one to help them, it just feels good. it takes about ten hours to fly to the drop off point and poland. how the weapons and get to ukraine s classified, for fear of russian attacks. are you worried at all, though, when you fly these things, that you could be a target for russia? it s a possibility, yes. but you can t think about that. defense officials say that the additional 20 billion dollars and military funding, announced by the biden administration this week, will include more of these 155 millimeter rounds and the artillery, the howitzers, to fire them. but, with the russian offensive already begun in the east, time is really of the essence to get these to the ukrainian military as fast as possible. ali? courtney hubi