U.S. arms are continuing to flow into Kiev. Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov gleefully tweeted about another planeload arriving on Jan. 23, the second of the weekend. “The second bird in Kyiv! More than 80 tons of weapons to strengthen Ukraine’s defense capabilities from our friends in the USA! And this is not the end,” Reznikov said, reported Reuters.
In the unrecognized Donetsk People’s Republic, deputy chief-of-staff of the Republican People’s Militia Eduard Basurin, warned that the Ukrainian army has deployed Uragan and Smerch rocket launchers to Donbas and embarked on refilling ammo stockpiles. “Six Smerch MLRS and two Uragan MLRS have been unloaded at the Krasnoarmeisk (Pokrovsk in Ukrainian) railway station” about 50 km northwest of Donetsk city, Basurin said, reported the Donetsk News Agency. Basurin also said that nationalist armed units of the Right Sector have been deployed to the Ukrainian army’s operational zone.
