McCain urges lethal weaponry for Ukraine:
U.S. Senator John McCain, a Republican who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, said during a visit to Brussels on March 25 that the United States should start "supplying lethal defensive weapons" to Ukraine.
McCain said Russian President Vladimir Putin "has stepped up his aggression in Ukraine" and that "Ukrainians are dying" as a result.
"We need to give them weapons with which to defend themselves," McCain said.
He said the "first priority for Ukraine" should be to deliver weapons like man-portable Javelin antitank missiles, weapon-tracking radar that can detect artillery projectiles, and "other capabilities because right now they are outgunned" by the Russian weaponry of "so-called separatists."
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