Zelenskyy: Ukraine received US$76 billion out of US$177 billion approved by America

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1. Don’t worry. I’m sure Musk will pocket the rest with Trump

2. More on this subject from other reputable sources:

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   – Kyiv Independent (B): [15,000 Russian troops 'neutralized' in Pokrovsk direction in January alone, Syrskyi says](https://kyivindependent.com/15-000-russian-troops-neutralized-in-pokrovsk-direction-in-january-alone-syrskyi-says/)
   – DW-TV (B+): [Russia launched 1,400 airstrikes this week, Zelenskyy says](https://www.dw.com/en/russia-launched-1400-airstrikes-this-week-zelenskyy-says/live-71485935)
   – Berliner Zeitung (B): [Ukraine war – Selensky warns: US-Russia talks without Ukraine “very dangerous”](https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/selenskyj-warnt-us-russland-gespraeche-ohne-ukraine-sehr-gefaehrlich-li.2292850)
   – Al Jazeera (C+): [Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,074](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/2/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-1074)

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3. Eh………I have a huge amount of respect for him, but he really needs to read the room right now. Anything that sounds like a “complaint” about Americans not giving Ukraine enough aid, even if it is a mere statement of fact, is best left unspoken.

4. The courage he and his people have is astonishing.

5. I’d be curious about how he and Ukraine are counting this money.

   And what I mean is that:

   1: not all of the money obligated or earmarked has been spent. Having worked on US government contracts, we will sign a contract for the government for say, $10m USD. But that doesn’t mean all $10m is spent right away. It’s just the limit of what the government has authorized us to spend to do the job they hired us for, and then pay us for. That $10m may be designed to be spent over 5 years or as work is ordered by the government and the government is in turned billed and pays when the work is done.

   2. In this article, he mentions the weapons they received. Is he accounting for the cost to say, refurbish these weapons? We sent Ukraine M1A1 Abrams. As one example, U.S. has not had M1A1 Abrams on active service in a long time, and so they needed to be overhauled before being sent over.

   As well, and I don’t know the answer to this: it cost money in labor dollars to overhaul this equipment. You’d need actually highly trained tradesman to do the work. The facilities. The industrial line, as it’s called. I wonder if the money we have earmarked for Ukraine is also used to pay for this labor, which would make sense. This is a huge cost.

   3. Is he referring to collectively to everything Ukraine has received? Like does this figure include ammunition? Which is essentially material we’ve given them that is of course intended to be consumed. Or is he referring to the tanks and vehicles donated by the U.S. and on Ukrainian books, the rifles and javelin systems we gave, aka the non-consumable equipment.

   4. Does this figure include logistics? Shipping these tanks and vehicles and artillery and missiles and ammunition is a gigantic cost. They can only be shipped on USNS or U.S. flagged vessels. Which is much, much more expensive than the shipping utilized to get your standard consumer goods across the ocean because the sailors are all U.S. citizens and there are less vessels. Or this stuff is shipped via air which is probably 5-8x more expensive per item in my experience. Plus, any explosives have to be shipped in specially configured ships designed to transport them. Just trying to paint a picture that all of these logistics is extremely, extremely expensive in and of itself.

   5. Do these figures include top secret expenditures? We are also providing Ukraine a ton of intel. Especially signals intelligence. That shit ain’t free.

   Maybe all of these have been considered in the above figures. Just trying to give some context.

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