A Ukrainian delegation warned U.S. officials in Washington this week that security assistance packages are not arriving quick enough in the besieged country.
"The six-year-old boy who is visiting his mother's grave in his backyard does not want to hear about bureaucracy as an excuse for not delivering weapons to Ukraine," Kaleniuk said.
"I have no doubt that Ukraine will have the weapons necessary to fight. The question is the timeline. This discussion is not about the list of weapons. The discussion is about the timeline when do we get them and this is crucial," he said, adding"people are dying today, the offensive is unfolding today."
Blinken's comments echo those of U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley. Austin and Milley told lawmakers last week that some weapons systems on Ukraine's wish list require months of training in order to operate.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium April 6, 2022.
In the past six weeks, Russian forces on the ground in Ukraine have been beset with a slew of logistical problems on the battlefield, including reports of fuel and food shortages as well as frostbite. "We are almost out of ammunition. If you don't have ammunition you can't do anything," she said, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin's war will likely spill over Ukraine's borders.
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