New US aid of one billion dollars to Ukraine.
According to Tass, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has announced that Washington will provide more aid to Kyiv in the amount of more than one billion dollars.
The US Secretary of State said in a joint press conference with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmitry Kolba, that $665.5 million of this amount will be spent on military and civilian aid.
Earlier, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Colin Call announced that the allocation of billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine has put pressure on the US military industry. “Efforts to help the Ukrainians have put a strain on our military industry,” Call said.
The US government has announced that the total amount of aid given to Ukraine during Joe Biden’s term as US President amounted to 45 billion dollars, of which 37.6 billion dollars have been given to Kyiv since the beginning of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Last month, the Wall Street Journal, quoting informed sources, confirmed that the Pentagon has increased the value of the weapons it sent to Ukraine by at least 3 billion dollars so that Ukraine can achieve the goals set in the territory of this country in the continuation of the war.
Last December, a poll conducted by the Chicago Institute of International Affairs showed that due to the Russian military operations in Ukraine, the American public support for Ukraine’s military support has decreased.
Since the beginning of the Russian war in late February 2022, Ukraine has received wide and varied financial and military aid from Western countries, led by the United States and other European countries.
Western countries seek to hinder Russia’s military goals through financial, military, and political support from Kyiv, while Moscow has repeatedly confirmed that the operation in Donbas will not stop until all goals are achieved.
Russian forces continue their military operations and have complete control of four regions that joined Russia last year (Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics and Zaporizhia and Kherson Oblasts).
Two weeks ago, a number of congressmen emphasized their country’s further war-making in Ukraine by sending advanced weapons, and in a letter to US President Joe Biden, they asked him to deliver the US Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) to Ukraine. to give
This request has been made in the midst of the green light of the US and its Western allies to send F-16 fighters to Ukraine. Earlier, US President Joe Biden, in a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the Group of 7 summit in Japan, said that the US and its allies will soon start training Ukrainian pilots to fly the F-16.
U.S. officials have previously said that the weapons and equipment provided will help Ukraine break a long-term stalemate over the fierce fighting in eastern Ukraine, particularly around the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast.
