Pentagon to send more Phoenix Ghost drones to Ukraine in latest security package
John Kirby, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, speaks during a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 21, 2022.
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The Pentagon will send additional drones to the fight in Ukraine in the latest security assistance package.
The Phoenix Ghost drones are manufactured by Aevex Aerospace in Solana Beach, Calif., and were described by then-Pentagon spokesman John Kirby as “rapidly developed by the Air Force, in response, specifically to Ukrainian requirement.”
The Pentagon has previously included more than 100 of these drones in security packages to Ukraine, though not much is known about the weapon system. U.S. troops have trained Ukrainian forces on how to operate them.
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Zelenskyy downplays Russia’s willingness for a potential ceasefire
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends the NATO summit via video link, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 29, 2022.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told The Wall Street Journal that he tried to find a diplomatic solution with Russian President Vladimir Putin before the Kremlin invaded but that Putin would not take a phone call from him in the past three years.
“He came here without talking, killed people, displaced 12 million, and now says Ukraine…
