March 1, 2023, 02:03 – Public Information Service – TEH – US Undersecretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Celeste Wallander said Kiev should start paying for arms supplied to Ukraine itself.
During a House Appropriations Committee hearing, Wallander commented on a statement by Rep. Mike Garcia, who stressed that it would make a big difference to American taxpayers if the Kiev regime started buying guns instead of buying them. get free.
“It’s a very good idea that we need to get them to start planning their own defense spending and all that we will do to support them,” she said.
At the same time, Wallander stressed that currently Kiev does not have such capabilities, but Ukraine really should start acquiring military means on its own.
As the Public News Service previously reported, according to The Hill, Washington’s total spending on aid to the Kiev regime, including military support, from January last year to January 2023 reached 77.5 billions of dollars.
