US sends seized Iranian ammunition to Ukraine

The US Central Command on Wednesday said that it has sent over one million rounds of previously seized Iranian ammunition to Ukraine. 

The US confiscated the ammunition in 2022 from a vessel that was allegedly shipping weapons from Iran to the Houthi rebel group in Yemen.

The Ukrainian military awaits more weapons and aid from the US and its Western allies. 

The Justice Department, in March, had announced that it was seeking forfeiture of the weapons the US seized from Iran.

The Biden administration had been trying to work out how to legally send the seized weapons to Ukraine. The weapons are stored in CENTCOM facilities across the Middle East.

Military assistance from the US has played an important role in Ukraine's efforts to fight Russian forces. In the meantime, criticism of the US and other Western nations providing aid to Ukraine is gaining steam raising questions on the durability of the support.

In the meantime, Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for seeking additional funds from the US to hold polls in the war-torn country.

In an interview with Fox News, Ramaswamy defended his statement that he would cut aid to Ukraine if elected as the US president.