'Russia has already failed': Blinken hails
Ukraine's strategy against Putin, announces
new $713m aid package but won't reopen
embassy yet - unlike the UK - after he
and Austin hold talks with Zelensky in Kyiv
Posted By: Ribicon, 4/25/2022 8:54:15 AM
The US has pledged another $713million for Ukraine as two top Biden officials visited Kyiv under the cover of darkness where they blasted Russia's 'failing' invasion. In the highest-level meeting between the US and Ukraine since the war, Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin took a train from Poland to Kyiv where they met with Volodymyr Zelensky in an overnight trip shrouded by secrecy.(Snip)At the meeting, Austin and Mr Blinken announced a total of $713million in foreign military financing for Ukraine and 15 allied and partner countries; some $322million of that is earmarked for Kyiv. The remainder will be split among NATO members and other nations
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Twitter by announcing ‘reforms’ to
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Twitter by announcing ‘reforms’ to
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Wars are fantastic in that fortunes are made skimming money from the urgent assistance that's sent. Every few days there's an article on another few hundred million dollars, which if glancing at the headline you'd think was old news, but no, it's more money we don't have going to prolong a war that has nothing at all to do with US interests but that threatens to drag us in. Here, it seems the funding from other "NATO countries" is really coming from us.