The White House approved another $100 million in military aid to Ukraine

The White House announced Tuesday that it will give another $100 million in military aid to Ukraine, bringing US assistance to the European country to more than $1.7 billion since the Russian invasion began.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicated in a note that he authorized today on the order of President Joe Biden a new withdrawal of DOD artifacts “to meet Ukraine's urgent need for additional anti-weapon systems.”

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby specified that these are Javelin anti-weapon missiles, which the US has been supplying to Ukraine and with which he assured that the country has been defending itself “very effectively.”

Blinken, who recalled the “atrocities committed by Russian forces in Bucha,” stressed that Washington and its allies will continue to strongly support Ukraine in the “courageous” defense of its “sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

In that regard, he argued that more than 30 countries, in addition to the US, have been sending military aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24.

“Together, we are sending security assistance every day and we are accelerating the shipment of even more weapons and defense equipment that Ukraine uses to defend itself,” he added.

In addition to “strengthening Ukraine's position on the battlefield and the negotiating table,” its allies are gathering data to “document reported abuses” and bring them to the appropriate bodies to purge accountability, he said.

Since Joe Biden's term began in January 2021, the United States has allocated more than $2.4 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, according to the State Department.

On the other hand, the leader of the Russian opposition, Alexei Navalny, assured that Russian state media share the blame with the government for the atrocities that were committed in Ukraine during the invasion: “Propagandists are creating public opinion that no longer only allows Putin to commit crimes of war, but demands them.”

“How does an ordinary Russian television viewer (one of whom I am currently) see it. I learned about the monstrous events in Bucha yesterday morning from the news that Russia was convening the UN Security Council in connection with the massacre of Ukrainian Nazis in Bucha,” Navalny wrote in the first tweet of a 14-year thread he published from prison.

In the evening, he heard the Channel One presenter saying: “NATO has been preparing the provocation in Bucha for a long time and at the highest level. This is also confirmed by the fact that President Biden called Putin a 'butcher' not so long ago. Listen to how consonants sound the English word 'butcher' and the name of the city 'Bucha'. This is how the Western audience unconsciously prepared for this provocation.”

(With information from EFE)

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