Blinken: ‘Today with President Zelenskyy, I discussed longer-term sustainable security arrangements which will provide ongoing security assistance and modern military equipment across land, air, sea, and cyberspace, as well as training and intelligence sharing.’
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Among developments announced during Blinken’s unannounced visit to Kyiv:^1
>We will continue to stand by Ukraine’s side, and today we’re announcing new assistance totaling more than $1 billion in this common effort.
>[…] We’re sending our first delivery of mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles to Ukraine’s border guards and police, some of whom I’ll have an opportunity to visit with tomorrow.
>And we’re providing critical assistance for demining to help clear Russian land mines, unexploded ordnance, and other daily remnants of war killing and maiming civilians.
>Ukraine is now the world’s most heavily mined country – 30 percent of its territory is potentially covered with mines.
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>Today with President Zelenskyy, I discussed longer-term sustainable security arrangements which will provide ongoing security assistance and modern military equipment across land, air, sea, and cyberspace, as well as training and intelligence sharing.
>[…] Beyond Ukraine’s security needs, for the first time we are transferring to Ukraine assets seized from sanctioned Russian oligarchs, which will now be used to support Ukrainian military veterans.
>[…] We’re continuing lifesaving humanitarian assistance; emergency shelter for those whose homes Russia has destroyed; medical support and health care for survivors of relentless Russian missile attacks and shelling, including as we saw again last night and today; food, clean drinking water; generators for communities.
>Today we’re committing an additional $206 million toward that effort, much of which is dedicated to helping the more than 6 million Ukrainians who are displaced by Russia’s war.
^1 https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-and-ukrainian-foreign-minister-dmytro-kuleba-at-a-joint-press-availability-4/
This is huge! Ukraine is on its way to being one of Washington’s biggest allies in Europe nato or not
Someone just remembered there is oil in Ukraine.
France helped free USA from Britain. USA helped free Britain & France from Germany. Now USA, France, Britain, and Germany are helping Ukraine get free from Russia.
Keep it up. Democracy will overcome. Ukrainians won’t succumb to Putin’s evil.
Help Ukraine now so that our boys & girls don’t have to be there tomorrow.