Biden tours US anti-tank missile factory, urges billions for Ukraine

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TROY, UNITED STATES - Standing in front of stacks of Javelin missiles at an Alabama factory, President Joe Biden told workers assembling the weapon, which has been wreaking havoc on Russian tanks in

Ukraine, that they are part of"These weapons touched by the hands, your hands, are in the hands of Ukrainian heroes, making a significant difference," Biden said at the Lockheed Martin facility in Troy, Alabama, which has produced more than 50,000 of the tank-busting rockets in the last two decades.

With the West's help, Ukraine's forces are"making fools of the Russian military in many instances," he said. "This fight is not going to be cheap, but caving to aggression would be even more costly," Biden said.So far, the United States has shipped 5,500 Javelins to Ukraine, part of more than US$3 billion in military aid since the start of the war in February.

 

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