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12 | <strong>M2CC</strong> - News www.m2cc.us APRIL <strong>2022</strong> EDITION<br />
artillery and planes as well<br />
as small-arms ammunition<br />
and real-time intelligence<br />
about the Russian army.<br />
“Anti-tank and antiaircraft<br />
systems are still<br />
critical to protecting<br />
Ukrainian troops on the<br />
offense and we should<br />
continue to supply them<br />
as needed. That said,<br />
there is more the U.S. can<br />
and should do to ensure<br />
President [Volodymyr]<br />
Zelenskyy is in as<br />
strong of a position as<br />
possible,” Gallagher, a<br />
former Marine, said in a<br />
statement.<br />
The U.S. is constrained<br />
in the kind of heavy<br />
equipment it can provide<br />
Ukraine, said Mark<br />
Cancian, a former Marine<br />
and senior adviser with<br />
the Center for Strategic<br />
and International Studies,<br />
a Washington think<br />
tank. Most, if not all,<br />
the weapons will need<br />
to be Soviet-made and<br />
sent through Eastern<br />
European allies who will<br />
then receive replacements<br />
from the U.S. Recent<br />
appeals by Reznikov and<br />
Zelenskyy to purchase<br />
NATO-standard heavy<br />
weapons are not practical,<br />
he said.<br />
“If we send them M1<br />
tanks, they wouldn’t know<br />
what to do with them, they<br />
don’t have anybody that’s<br />
trained on them and to<br />
make an M1 tank effective<br />
would take at least a<br />
year,” Cancian said. “And<br />
that’s true of F-16 aircraft<br />
or anything else like that<br />
that they don’t already<br />
operate.”<br />
Slovakia received a Patriot<br />
missile system from the<br />
U.S. after sending its<br />
S-300 air defense system<br />
to Ukraine last week.<br />
Only the Czech Republic<br />
has supplied Ukraine with<br />
tanks, sending Soviet-era<br />
T-72s.<br />
Rep. Stephanie Bice,<br />
R-Okla., said tanks<br />
should be sent to Ukraine<br />
“in a swift manner”<br />
but acknowledged that<br />
brokering the delivery of<br />
aircraft, which Ukraine<br />
has repeatedly asked for to<br />
“close the sky” to Russian<br />
bombardment, will be<br />
difficult. The White House<br />
nixed a deal to transfer<br />
MiG fighter jets from<br />
Poland to Ukraine last<br />
month, fearing it would<br />
provoke Russia.<br />
“Unfortunately, we are not<br />
able to provide the types<br />
of planes that Ukrainian<br />
pilots can immediately<br />
fly,” Bice said in a<br />
statement. “We are<br />
relying on other nations to<br />
supply those, and so far,