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Biden vows to resume arming Ukraine ‘this week’

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The Pentagon could send $1 billion in new aid to Kiev as soon as the US president authorizes a drawdown.

The Pentagon has set up a robust logistical system to reportedly send up to $1 billion worth of weapons to Ukraine, once the long-delayed legislation to fund Kiev’s war effort against Moscow is signed by President Joe Biden.

The $95 billion foreign aid package, including $61 billion for Ukraine, was approved by a 79-18 Senate vote on Tuesday evening, after the lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to end a filibuster and advance the measure.

“I will sign this bill into law and address the American people as soon as it reaches my desk tomorrow so we can begin sending weapons and equipment to Ukraine this week,” Biden said in a statement after the vote.

The new aid package will include air defense munitions and large amounts of artillery rounds, as well as armored vehicles and other weapons, several US officials told AP on Tuesday. According to the unnamed sources, some of the items on the list will be shipped “within days,” but others could take longer to deliver.

The Pentagon has neither confirmed nor denied the report of a new package ready to be shipped, but press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told journalists on Tuesday that the US military is “doing everything we can to be poised to respond quickly.”

“I think it’s a good assumption to expect that it’ll include air defense capabilities as well as artillery, ammunition,” Ryder said. “I will say again, that this security assistance package will be based on Ukraine’s most urgent needs.”

President Biden already reassured his Ukrainian colleague Vladimir Zelensky in a phone call on Monday that weapons shipments will begin rapidly after the bill comes to the Oval Office for his signature. While the White House offered few details on Biden-Zelensky call, the Ukrainian leader claimed that Kiev will be receiving longer-range ATACMS missiles.

The multi-billion-dollar US aid package was requested by the White House months ago but was only passed by the House of Representatives on Saturday, after Speaker Mike Johnson agreed to it.

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu noted on Tuesday that America’s expected military assistance for Kiev is intended to “prevent the collapse” of Ukrainian forces, but predicted that the money will not significantly impact the situation on the battlefield, since “most of the funding will go to US military production.”

“The American authorities cynically state that Ukrainians will be dying in the fight with Russia for their interests,” Shoigu stated. Officials in both Washington and Kiev have argued that paying Ukraine to fight Russia is preferable to the US having to fight Russia directly.

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16 COMMENTS

  1. Is Ukraine a secret state in the United States of America? It seems that way. They are providing funding as if the US itself is being invaded. All very strange.

  2. “…Pentagon has set up a robust logistical system to reportedly send up to $1 billion worth of weapons to Ukraine…”
    …had me coughing and gasping…
    DTNZ, please stop the irony. I beg ya!

    • yea, taxpayer’s money going to rothchild and associates. The old trick.
      Why is the taxpayer accepting it ? take to the street massively and protest !!
      Or go on strike. The system/ bad governments need to be weaned from all our taxmoney, as it will be never enough .
      There are also all kind of tricks to pay less taxes. For example gifts to charities or what ever you think is good. Buying directly to the producer, bartering .

      • The taxpayer WILL go to the street (and more) when -not if- the SHTF.
        As much as I prey for the sycophants and agents of the bankster cabal to find their demise, and woefully most of them don’t see the writing on the wall, these times will be just awful.
        Their ONLY chance would be to read the hidden sentiment of the populace, which WILL turn on a heel. But THEY are too arrogant, too stupid or too corrupted to do so.
        Be prepared.

    • THANK YOU for posting this.
      This ought to be shown to the creatures in the waspnest who ‘donated’ another NZ $ 25 million to Ukraine.

  3. Biden needs a war to help save his skin. He and his party know that in November they are done. Biden and friends are war mongers and don’t care what and who they destroy.

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