South Korea insists policy against providing lethal aid to Ukraine remains unchanged, and ammunition is for US use.

Washington plans to buy 100,000 South Korean-made artillery shells for use in the Ukraine war, a United States official has said, though South Korea has insisted its policy against providing lethal aid to Ukraine remained unchanged and it expects the end user of the ammunition to be US forces.

Citing US officials familiar with the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US and South Korea were nearing an agreement to buy 100,000 rounds of 155mm artillery shells that would be delivered to Ukraine.

Seoul has provided bulletproof vests, helmets and other non-lethal military as well as medical supplies to Ukraine, but has turned down Kyiv’s requests for weapons, local media reported.

Poster Comment:

100,000 artillery rounds would last less than 2 days for Russia. De-industrialization after NAFTA was not such a good idea.