Washington allocates additional humanitarian assistance to Kyiv in the amount of about $ 368 million. This is stated in statement US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
“The additional funding, which includes almost $288 million from the State Department and over $80 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will go to food, safe drinking water, cash assistance, protection, affordable housing, emergency medical assistance, logistics and humanitarian coordination. “, he pointed out.
Blinken recalled that since the beginning of the special operation of the Russian Federation to protect Donbass, the United States has provided humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in the amount of more than $1.28 billion. According to him, due to the crisis, more than 11 million Ukrainian citizens were forced to leave their homes. The Secretary of State added that 15.7 million people need some form of assistance.
In addition to humanitarian aid, the United States supplies weapons to Ukraine. On June 15, John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications at the White House, announced that the United States had allocated $5.6 billion worth of military assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the special operation. According to him, Washington intends to continue to provide new military aid packages to Kyiv “on a regular basis” .
On June 2, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasyl Nebenzya, told a meeting of the United Nations Security Council that the West was committing a war crime by flooding Ukraine with weapons. He recalled that Ukrainian punishers with his help continue shelling the peaceful quarters of Donbass.
On the same day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov pointed out that the supply of modern weapons to Kyiv by Western countries would only cause more suffering to Ukraine, but would not affect the Russian special operation to protect Donbass.
On February 24, Russia launched a special operation to protect Donbass. A few days earlier, the situation in the region escalated significantly due to shelling by the Ukrainian military. The authorities of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics announced the evacuation of residents to the Russian Federation, and also turned to Moscow for help. On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognizing the independence of the DNR and LNR.
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