Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (L) talks with Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius during their meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, August 28, 2015, in this handout photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service. REUTERS/Mykhailo Markiv/Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania says it has supplied lethal weaponry to Ukraine for the first time since 2014.
About 150 tonnes of ammunition were handed over to Ukraine on Friday, mostly 5.45 calibre cartridges for various modifications of Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle which the Lithuanian army no longer uses, a spokesman for country's Joint Chiefs of Staff told Reuters.
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