Gov. Justice announces West Virginia National Guard to provide Ukraine military with armored vehicles

CHARLESTON, WV – Gov. Jim Justice introduced in the present day that the West Virginia Nationwide Guard (WVNG) will help Ukraine by offering armored personnel carriers to be used in opposition to continued Russian aggression. 

Following a request from the Division of Protection (DOD), the West Virginia Military Nationwide Guard will give an undisclosed variety of M-113 Armored Personnel Carriers (APC) to Ukraine as a part of a drawdown of DOD inventories to assist the nation.

M-113 APCs are used to maneuver Troopers and gear throughout the battlefield whereas offering safety from small arms hearth and the consequences of artillery.

“By becoming a member of with different states in sending quite a few of those armored automobiles to Ukraine, we hope and pray that this may give Ukrainian forces a serious leg up of their protection of their dwelling nation,” Gov. Justice stated. “In West Virginia, we’ll all the time rise up for what’s proper, which is why we stand united with Ukraine and can proceed to assist in each means doable, particularly as we proceed to be taught concerning the struggle crimes and different atrocities that proceed to happen on this unprovoked and insupportable assault on a nation and its individuals.”

As we speak’s announcement is West Virginia’s newest effort to assist Ukraine fight the unprovoked assault by Russia. Final month, Gov. Justice introduced that he had directed the WVNG and the West Virginia Division of Homeland Safety to assist Ukraine by accumulating unused or just lately expired ballistic vests from legislation enforcement businesses throughout the state. The Governor additionally referred to as on the West Virginia Legislature to hitch him in pledging $5 million in help for a Ukrainian maternity and youngsters’s hospital that had been bombed by Russian navy forces.

In February, Gov. Justice introduced that he had issued an Govt Order, directing the West Virginia Alcohol Beverage Management Administration to stop the acquisition and sale of all Russian-produced liquor till additional discover, whereas concurrently making Ukrainian-produced liquor manufacturers out there for buy by licensed retail liquor shops.

“With Putin selecting to proceed his lethal assault on Ukraine, he has proven us what he actually is: a monster and a madman,” Gov. Justice stated. “He’s blown up maternity hospitals, harmless persons are being killed each day. Regardless of all of the sanctions positioned on Russia from throughout the globe, Putin continues his unyielding path of destruction, tearing aside household after household. As I’ve stated a number of occasions, if he’s not going to cease on his personal, we have to make him cease. We will’t be afraid to behave. We’re America. We have to do one thing about it.”