Biden strengthens Ukraine with a new aid package, according to the White House
Biden strengthens Ukraine with a new aid package, according to the White House
The bid administration is working hard to provide support to Ukraine in order to put Kiev "into the strongest possible position", while Russia intensifies his attacks and President Joe Biden will divorce in less than two months.
safety support for Ukraine
"Today we announce a security support package of $ 725 million for Ukraine, which includes considerable amounts of artillery, rockets and air defense skills," said national security advisor Jake Sullivan in a message. "The President has instructed the Ministry of Defense to quickly deliver the materials to Ukraine to ensure that Ukraine has the equipment that it needs for self -defense."
deliveries and armor measures
Sullivan reported that between December and mid -January "hundreds of thousands of additional artillery shots, thousands of additional rockets and other critical skills are delivered to help Ukraine defend their freedom and independence." The message emphasizes several times that the Ukrainian armed forces should be brought "into the strongest possible position" before Biden's term of office ends.
key points of military support
Foreign Minister Antony Blinking announced the news on Monday morning. The new military aid package includes stinger rockets, ammunition for High Mobility artillery Rocket Systems (Himars) and anti -person mines.
NATO and the ongoing conflict
On Tuesday morning, Blinking in Brussels arrived for his last meeting of NATO Foreign Minister. Highest US diplomat emphasized that his country is determined to support Ukraine, and accused the Russian President Vladimir Putin "once more to use winter as a weapon to drive people out of their homes."
explanations of NATO
In a speech on Tuesday, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte pointed out that Ukraine was "in another crucial winter", while the aggression of Russia and Putin "does not show any signs". "Putin is not interested in peace. He pushes further to conquer more area because he thinks that he can break the will of Ukraine and our break," said Rutte. "But he is wrong. Ukraine has the right to defend itself and we have the duty to support them."
strategy for strengthening Ukraine
The provision of military aid is part of a more comprehensive strategy to support Ukraine, which is supplemented by Kiev
restrictions and challenges
Nevertheless, Two US-Beamte last week that the pentagon probably not all Billions of dollars that were approved by the congress, for Ukraine , can use before bidens. The government has less than two months to provide almost $ 7 billion from a larger package that was approved by the Congress at the beginning of this year to support Ukraine against Russia in the war. These funds allow the Ministry of Defense to resort to their own stocks to send weapons, but bottlenecks have limited the amount that the United States can send to Kiev in the past few months
production and existing bottlenecks
For months, the US government has reached the limits of its ability to fill up its own weapons, which restricts the support that Ukraine's bid administration was able to provide. For almost three years, since the beginning of the war, the US production of critical ammunition, such as 155 mm grenades, has increased, but the increase in production has not yet been completed.progress in the use of funds
Officials of the Foreign Ministry informed the Congress in November that the government continued to work to distribute the remaining funds, according to a congress source familiar with the matter.
This article was written by CNN employees Duarte Mendonça, Natasha Bertrand, Oren Liebermann, Katie Bo Lillis and Alex Marquardt.
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