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Like it or not, Crimea’s future is forever linked with Russia. For us, this issue is closed, finally and irrevocably. No sanctions by the US and its satellites, who imagine themselves masters of the world, will change our approach

Source, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/statu...83325611036677

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

I've read sometimes as little as 48 hours!

I've just found this Press breifing by a Senior Defence Official in the US.

Q: This is just like of the $800 million, what's in country, or what's been delivered or whatever. I thought that it was --

SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICIAL: Yeah, so we still estimate the closure of presidential drawdown to be by the middle of this month. Yesterday -- I'm trying to be careful here of what I say, but yesterday, two U.S. flights arrived in the region with everything from small-arms ammunition, machine guns, body armor, grenades and other explosives. In the next 24 hours, we expect another flight from the United States to arrive with similar things in it. But again, we've been moving right along on this. I don't have -- hang on just a second. I'm looking for something a little bit more specific here. So of the just-slightly-more-than 20 flights that we expected to be required to close out that $800 million, we are at 19, so we're very close to finishing it out, like I said. We believe we'll be done by the middle of the month, and that should close it out.

We're also working on the next one, which you know is $100 million for the Javelins, and we expected that that, that's the latest drawdown- we call that ‘PDA 5,’ with the Javelins should be finished by -- also by mid-April, so we're moving on both of them, and we're almost done with the $800 million.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcr...april-12-2022/