Earlier the US Department of State confirmed
licensing commercial export of US-manufactured lethal weapons to Ukraine.
MOSCOW,
December 21. /TASS/. Lethal weapon supplies to Ukraine may motivate ‘loose
cannons’ seeking bloodshed in the Donbass area, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
said on Thursday.
"Perhaps,
this [lethal weapon supplies] will once again motivate the hotheads of those
nationalists who are solely seeking to switch to the use-of-force method of
settling the situation in Donbass, an absolutely deadlocked method, to unleash
bloodshed again," Peskov said.
Moscow’s
stance on such possible deliveries has not changed, the Kremlin spokesman said.
The Russian
presidential spokesman added that official rebuttals of media reports about
preparations for such weapon deliveries had started to come from Washington.
"So
far, no decisions have been made [in the United States] on this score," he
said.
The
Washington Post said earlier citing its sources in the US government that the
Department of State had approved a commercial license for exports to Ukraine of
Barrett M107A1 sniper systems, munitions and spare parts for them to a sum of
$41.5 million.
"We
have crossed the Rubicon, this is lethal weapons and I predict more will be
coming," the newspaper cited a senior congressional official.
The US
Department of State has confirmed licensing commercial export of
US-manufactured lethal weapons to Ukraine.
"The
Department of State has licensed the commercial export of a limited number of
small arms and light weapons to Ukraine from U.S. manufacturers," a State
Department official told TASS on Wednesday.
According
to the official, the United States has "never had any policy that
restricts such commercial sales." "The United States reviews requests
for sales and export license applications on a case by case basis and this one
was no different," he said.
Source: ITAR-TASS 21-12-2017
