Kuleba announced some results of negotiations with Blinken
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Over the past year, Ukraine has received the most financial assistance from the United States for defense since 2014.
Ukraine will receive new shipments of defense weapons from the United States, reported Thursday, January 20, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba.
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“The second result (of Anthony Blinken’s visit) is that the United States is ready to further strengthen the defense capability of Ukraine. This is not only about the $60 million defense package that we received in December, but also about additional volumes of defense weapons, including lethal ones. Defense, but I can also confirm today that the Biden administration recently approved $200 million in additional security assistance to Ukraine, bringing the total amount of U.S. security and defense assistance to our nation to $650 million in 2021, more than in any year since 2014,” Kuleba said.
He also said that the United States has developed a new package of sanctions against Russia. “The United States has developed a package of very painful sanctions against Russia, which are capable of inflicting a devastating economic blow … The fundamental thing is that the decision has already been made in Washington,” Kuleba said.
“The United States is ready to use the full power of its economic and financial instruments to cut off the oxygen to the Russian economy. The Russian Federation will also lose access to a number of technologies important for its development,” he added, but did not give details.
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In addition, the minister spoke about the situation with the threat of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. According to him, Russian President Vladimir Putin is intimidating Ukraine, Europe, the United States and the world as a whole.
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“But even he himself does not know whether he will take the steps that he is scaring us with. We, diplomats, also use social networks, read the news, but we cannot afford to guess on the coffee grounds and succumb to media reports,” Kuleba said.
Recall, on the eve of Kiev visited the head of the State Department Anthony Blinken, who announced allocation of an additional $300 million to Ukraine help.
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