US Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley (AP)
Russia and Ukraine
The US Chief of Staff, Mark Milley, announced that Ukraine will not be able to achieve its military goal in the near future.
“I don’t think this is possible in the foreseeable future or during this year,” Milley said, in an online interview, today, Friday, in response to a question about whether Ukraine would be able to achieve its goal of controlling some lands in the near future.
Earlier, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken confirmed that Kiev might try to return some territory, but not on the battlefield, but in other ways.
“I think there are areas in Ukraine that (Kiev) intends to fight for, and there may be areas that it is likely to work to return in another way,” Blinken said, during a congressional hearing.
New aid package
In addition, the United States intends to announce a new package of military aid to Ukraine worth $2.6 billion on April 3, which will include radars and ammunition, according to Reuters news agency.
According to the agency, there may be about 6 different types of ammunition, including tank ammunition, and the new package will be approved for dispatch at the end of this week.
US military aid will arrive in Ukraine in February 2022 – Photo from Reuters
Earlier, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the US House of Representatives, Michael McCall, announced that Washington delivers to Kiev only 20% of the financial aid allocated to Ukraine, while the US side itself receives about 60% of this money.
“Of the $113 billion allocated in four (additional aid packages to Ukraine), about 60% has been allocated to US forces and personnel and to modernizing US inventories (of weapons and military equipment),” the US representative said in a hearing of his committee.
In fact, only 20% of this money goes directly to the Ukrainian government in the form of direct budget support.
