A U.S. Air Force cargo jet began shipping on Wednesday helmets and other non-lethal military kit donated by Japan to Ukraine, marking the first time an American aircraft has carried Japanese Self Defense Force gear to another country.
A C-17 transport jet flew from the United States to touch down at the Yokota air base near Tokyo, and pick up three truckloads of plastic-wrapped boxes. Japan's government declined to list the equipment inside.
"We won U.S. military support to use their planes so we are sending them on those aircraft so the equipment can arrive as soon as possible," said Makoto Oniki, Japan's vice minister of defence.
