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NPR News: 10-05-2023 5AM EDT
The US has sent roughly 1.1 million bullets seized from Iran last year to Ukraine, its military has said, the BBC reports.
The US Central Command (Centcom), which oversees operations in the Middle East, says the rounds were confiscated from a ship bound for Yemen in December.
Ukraine’s Western allies recently warned that their production lines were struggling to keep up with the rate at which Ukraine was using ammunition.
Centcom says the Iranian rounds were transferred to Ukraine on Monday.
It added the ammunition was 7.62mm calibre used in Soviet-era rifles and light machine-guns.
The US has already provided more than 200 million bullets and grenades.
