The work will be handled by SRCTecWASHINGTON, September 30.
/tass/. The US Department of Defense, as part of providing military assistance to Ukraine, has signed a $12 million contract with a company in New York state for the maintenance of TPQ-50 counter-battery radar stations. This is stated in a notice distributed by the Pentagon on Thursday.
As follows from the document, the work will be handled by SRCTec in Syracuse (New York). The service should be completed by June 30, 2023. The US authorities will allocate $12 million from funds to assist Kiev in the military sphere.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in response to the request of the leaders of the republics of Donbass for help. After that, the United States, the EU, the United Kingdom, as well as a number of other states imposed sanctions against Russian individuals and legal entities and intensified arms supplies to Kiev.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other Russian officials have repeatedly drawn attention to the danger of the spread of weapons supplied by the West to Ukraine in other regions. Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov warned that the militarization of Ukraine by the West directly threatens European and global security.