Top Pentagon Official Brags That It Was The U.S. Who Trained Ukrainians Who Sank Two Russian Warships

A harpoon missile launches from the missile deck of the U.S. Navy littoral combat ship Coronado off the coast of Guam in 2017. (MC2 Kaleb R. Staples/U.S. Navy)  

Defense One: US Trained Ukrainian Missileers Who Sunk Russian Warship, Pentagon Official Says 

Bill LaPlante also praised the quick “innovation” that delivered truck-mounted Harpoon missiles to Ukraine. 

Ukrainian forces who sank a Russian warship with Harpoon missiles in June were trained by the United States, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer said. 

That key detail of the strike and a few others were disclosed Wednesday by Bill LaPlante, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, during a conference panel hosted by Defense News near the Pentagon. 

LaPlante said the U.S. “brought the Ukrainians to train on [the Harpoon] over Memorial Day weekend, in our country, over Memorial Day weekend.”  

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Update #1: How The U.S. Rushed Harpoon Anti-Ship Missiles To Ukraine (Warzone/The Drive) 

Update #2: Pentagon Admits Helping Ukraine Forces Sink Russian Warships (Zero Hedge)  

Update #3: Pentagon’s acquisition chief talks inflation, Ukraine, ‘Vampires’ (Defense News)  

WNU Editor: The Pentagon is issuing clarifications on what the defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment said .... A Pentagon spokesperson said Bill LaPlante did not mean to say that Ukrainians were trained in the United States.