The United States has given Ukraine small arms and ammunition that were seized while being transferred from Iran to Tehran-backed Huthi rebels in Yemen, the U.S. military said on April 9. The transfer last week came as Ukraine suffers from significant shortages of ammunition and Republican lawmakers block new aid. "The U.S. government transferred over 5,000 AK-47s, machine guns, sniper rifles, RPG-7s and over 500,000 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition to the Ukrainian armed forces" on April 4, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said on X, formerly Twitter.
U.S. Sent Seized Iranian Munitions To Ukraine
A photo released by CENTCOM on February 15 shows a shipment it said was of Iranian weapons destined for Yemen's Huthi rebels that the navy seized from a vessel in the Arabian Sea on January 28.