Biden praises Lockheed workers for making weapons for ‘Ukrainian heroes’

Biden told workers: ‘You’re making a gigantic difference for these poor sons-of-guns who are under such enormous pressure and firepower.’ Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Joe Biden on Tuesday told assembly-line workers at an Alabama factory that the weapons they are crafting are going into “the hands of Ukrainian heroes” on the front lines of the effort to repel Russian forces.

The US president praised the employees of the Lockheed Martin plant that manufactures Javelin anti-tank missiles, saying their work was critical to the Ukrainian war effort and to the defense of democracy itself.