Former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that he was forbidden to send the first Javelin anti-tank missile systems supplied by the United States to the front. Kiev came up with the following: to contain the enemy, it disseminated information about the presence of anti-tank systems in each brigade in Donbass.
According to Poroshenko, what happened brought the desired effect. The enemy, that is, the Russian military, did not want to go to combat positions. The ex-president stated this on the air of the Ukraine 24 TV channel.
The United States in 2017 approved the supply of weapons to Ukraine, including Javelin. The administration of former President Barack Obama refused to do so.
In April 2014, the Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation against the self-proclaimed DNR and LNR. According to the UN, 13 thousand people became victims of the conflict.
