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CV NEWS FEED // Multiple sources reported this week that the outgoing Biden administration plans to again send an aid package of hundreds of millions of dollars and “billions” in arms to Ukraine.
The reports come just seven weeks before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office. Trump has on multiple occasions vowed to seek a peaceful resolution to the war between Ukraine and Russia.
The Associated Press (AP) reported on Monday that the federal government “is preparing to send Ukraine an additional $725 million in military assistance.”
The support package is set to include “counter-drone systems and munitions for its High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, which could indicate more of the longer-range missiles are headed to the battlefield.”
The Washington Post characterized the Biden administration’s “lame-duck initiative” as “an 11th-hour scramble to provide Ukraine with billions of dollars in additional weaponry.”
The move is “a massive effort that is generating concerns internally about its potential to erode U.S. stockpiles and sap resources from other flash points,” the Post pointed out.
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The Post’s report noted that the administration’s decision was sparked by “a fear among Ukraine’s fiercest advocates that once President-elect Donald Trump takes office Jan. 20, there will be an abrupt shift in U.S. policy toward the war.”
Outgoing National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told ABC on Sunday that he and the rest of the Biden administration are
going to do everything in our power for these 50 days to get Ukraine all the tools we possibly can to strengthen their position on the battlefield so that they’ll be stronger at the negotiating table.
Sullivan stated that Biden directed him “to oversee a massive surge in the military equipment that we are delivering to Ukraine.”
“So that we have spent every dollar that Congress has appropriated to us by the time that President Biden leaves office,” Sullivan added.
In mid-November, CatholicVote reported that after Trump’s sweeping November 5 victory, the current Democratic administration okayed Ukraine’s use of American-made long-range ATACMS missiles for attacks on Russian soil.
Less than two months earlier, Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in New York City, where both men “told the press that they seek a ‘just’ and ‘fair’ resolution to the Russo-Ukrainian War,” CatholicVote indicated at the time.
Standing next to Zelenskyy, Trump told reporters: “I haven’t changed from the standpoint that we both want to see this end, and we both want to see a fair deal made, and it’s got to be fair.”
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