The United States has given Ukraine small arms and ammunition that were seized while being transferred from Iranian forces to Tehran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, the US military said Tuesday.
The transfer last week came as Ukraine suffers from significant shortages of ammunition and US Republican politicians block new aid, but it does not address Kyiv’s need for key items such as artillery and air defense munitions.
"The US government transferred over 5,000 AK-47s, machine guns, sniper rifles, RPG-7s and over 500,000 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition to the Ukrainian armed forces" on Thursday, the US Central Command said on social media.
"These weapons will help Ukraine defend against Russia’s invasion" and are enough material to equip a brigade, it said,
The arms and ammunition were seized between May 2021 and February 2023 from four "stateless vessels" as they were being transferred from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to the Houthi rebels in Yemen, Centcom said.
U.S. Government Transfers Captured Weapons
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) April 9, 2024
On Apr. 4, 2024, the U.S. government transferred over 5,000 AK-47s, machine guns, sniper rifles, RPG-7s and over 500,000 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition to the Ukrainian armed forces. This constitutes enough materiel to equip one UKR BDE… pic.twitter.com/Ydecq6OFAo