Ukraine gets U.S. military aid, including Javelin anti-tank missiles


KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine has received military aid worth more than $60 million from the United States, including Javelin anti-tank missiles, the U.S. embassy said on Wednesday.

Following Moscow's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the outbreak of fighting in Ukraine's eastern Donbass region, Washington sent a first shipment of Javelin systems worth around $47 million to Kyiv in April 2018.

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