Sean Parnell Asked Point Blank About Ukraine's Criticism Of US Weapons Shipment Halt

At a Pentagon press briefing on Wednesday, Spokesperson Sean Parnell was asked about the Ukraine weapon shipment halt.

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00:00Rebecca. Hi, yeah, so obviously with respect to Ukrainian aid, the United States announced that

00:07they are going to be withholding certain aspects of aid. Ukraine responded by saying that this is

00:12going to embolden Russia. What is the department's response to that argument? Well, the president's

00:17strategic outset with regards to Ukraine and Russia has been one of peace. He campaigned on

00:22this when he was asked on a town hall with CNN about that war. He said he wanted to just stop

00:29people from dying. And so peace has been the president's highest aspiration. We here at the

00:33department support those goals and those missions. But it's important to remember that the stuff that

00:41I mentioned in my top are like what we've done here at the Department of Defense is create a framework

00:46to analyze what munitions we're sending where to help the president and the secretary of defense

00:51make decisions. And so ultimately, our job here at the Department of Defense is to pursue the

00:57president's America first agenda and make sure that we achieve peace through strength throughout the

01:01world.