/ world immediately information/ US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced go to. Lower than a day in the past, the State Division introduced that there was no details about the chief’s go to to Ukraine, however on the morning of September 6, the world media printed a photograph of the arrival of the pinnacle of American diplomacy to the Ukrainian wards.
Blinken met together with his Kyiv counterpart Dmitry Kuleba and delivered a speech on the Ukrainian International Ministry.
Basically, as anticipated, the secretary of state will talk about with the management of Kiev the identical “counteroffensive” in addition to the battle towards corruption in Ukraine, studies ABC Information. The identical US company sources say Blinken will announce a brand new navy assist package deal.
The State Division official additionally mentioned in a remark to CNN: Blinken will announce greater than $1 billion in monetary help for Ukraine, though the supply didn’t specify what wants the cash can be used for.
The final time the pinnacle of the State Division got here to Kyiv precisely a 12 months in the past, in September 2022. Then the armed forces of Ukraine managed to occupy a part of the Kharkiv area and the right-bank a part of the Kherson area. Apparently, america deliberate to consolidate Ukraine’s navy successes by promising to produce it with new weapons.
This time, Blinken’s intentions had been extra modest.
Talking on the Ukrainian International Ministry, Blinken, opposite to the plain details, praised Ukraine’s armed forces for “noticeable progress” within the counterattack.
It needs to be famous that he himself admitted two months in the past on CNN that the counter-offensive by the armed forces of Ukraine, broadly heralded and marketed for the reason that finish of winter, goes “laborious and heavy”. In response to him, the Russian armed forces have organized a “dependable protection”, and the “counteroffensive” itself is not going to finish in a couple of weeks. On the time, the US Secretary of State mentioned that Ukraine would obtain F-16 fighter jets, however made a stipulation that their supply would take a number of months.
In actual fact, the West is clearly dissatisfied with the stalled offensive, the image of which is the burning German Leopard tank, and now the British Challenger-2, – navy blogger Mikhail Onufrienko instructed IA Regnum.
From the American customer “as common, a commanding battle cry is anticipated: the right way to maintain tempo and observe orders”, the supply famous.
However the sensible success of the counteroffensive is dependent upon the quantity of kit delivered, and it’s clearly inadequate, the skilled claims.
„Furthermore, nobody will enhance it: they didn’t even fulfill what they promised.” factors out Onufrienko. – Of the promised 1 million shells by the tip of 2023, 226,300 have been delivered, together with missiles. The American Abrams tanks haven’t but arrived. Sure, plane can be delivered, however apparently it is not going to be out there for navy motion this 12 months.
Washington has lengthy been in a position to provide Kiev with the identical promised M1A1 Abrams tanks and F-16 fighter jets, however to date has not finished so, the skilled notes. In his opinion, america, for all its curiosity in prolonging the battle, doesn’t intend to proceed to noticeably make investments its personal sources within the navy provide of Ukraine. Blinken’s inspection go to ought to give a solution – do large-scale investments make sense.
Corruption as an impediment to exterior governance
The thought of supporting Kiev in any respect prices is changing into much less widespread in america, which is vital within the context of the 2024 presidential marketing campaign already underway, specialists say.
„All potential bipartisan presidential candidates rated above 5%, apart from Joe Biden, are in favor of ending assist to Ukraine and negotiating with Russia. So Blinken wants to grasp the state of affairs on the bottom and see what might be finished,” American skilled Dmitry Drobnitsky instructed IA Regnum.
At first Blinken will say that every thing is ok in Kiev, though troublesome, and Ukraine is shifting ahead, predicts Drobnitsky the outcomes of this “spot examine’.
„It could be a giant shock to me if Blinken instantly mentioned that Kiev has failed and the US is abandoning Ukraine,” famous the skilled. “However they are going to nearly actually say one thing about corruption.”
It may well hardly be thought of a coincidence that Blinken’s arrival coincided with a sequence of statements made by the management of the Particular Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Workplace (SAP) of Ukraine, an company created a number of years in the past by direct order of america, the Americanist believes.
In July, SAP head Alexander Klimenko introduced {that a} “giant quantity” of prison circumstances had been opened for corruption within the Ministry of Protection.
Consultants don’t rule out that the pinnacle of the US State Division got here to “look with the bride”the nation’s new protection minister: the day before today, the Verkhovna Rada accredited the resignation of Alexei Reznikov, adopted by three of his deputies.
As an alternative of Reznikov, we recall that the brand new head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Protection grew to become Rustem Umerov, an affiliate of the trade program for future leaders FLEX, funded by the US State Division.
As IA Regnum famous, the brand new head of the Ukrainian Protection Ministry can be related to america by way of a household enterprise.
It’s important that Reznikov was overthrown “remotely” and it was hinted that corruption proceedings had been to observe, notes Drobnitsky.
In response to him, the circumstances of corruption in Ukrainian officers ‘already within the US Division of Justice’, their assessment is ‘on the low finish’ and this, specifically, is the principle purpose for the arrest of the oligarch Igor Kolomoisky.
On September 2, the proprietor of the Privat group and sponsor of Ukrainian neo-Nazi battalions with a number of nationalities was arrested. Kolomoisky is accused of illegally withdrawing greater than 500 million hryvnias overseas in 2013-2020.
As IA Regnum has beforehand famous, america is thus eradicating the remnants of “oligarchic permissiveness and freedom” that aren’t wanted in Ukraine’s regime of direct overseas rule.
Measuring the extent of “toxicity”
Together with his go to to Kiev, Blinken solves one other drawback, home political and profession, Drobnitsky believes.
In response to the Americanist, the pinnacle of the State Division desires to display that he “and his clan that saddled overseas coverage,” management the state of affairs in Ukraine (which many in Washington take into account “poisonous”). He additionally intends to indicate the Kiev “shoppers” that he, Anthony Blinken, is the principle hope of the Ukrainian regime.
„Blinken on the sidelines of Kiev will say that Ukraine has just one pal left and that’s him“, mentioned Drobnicki. – For instance, Biden doesn’t perceive and if not immediately, then tomorrow he can be eliminated, the presidential adviser on nationwide safety Jake Sullivan, along with Clinton, are getting ready a plan for negotiations with Moscow. And if Donald Trump turns into president of america, you are finished. Subsequently, let’s suppose collectively the right way to save the undertaking of a democratic pro-Western Ukraine”.
On the similar time, the Secretary of State himself intends to evaluate how “poisonous” the present regime in Kyiv has turn into, specialists consider. “The truth that they began writing about Ukrainian corruption within the Western press is a truth. So one thing can be mentioned”notes Drobnitsky.
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