President Joe Biden lifted a “de facto” ban on military contractors from the U.S. operating in Ukraine earlier this month—before the presidential election—that allows the Pentagon to pay American companies that assist the Ukrainian military in maintaining weaponry provided by Western countries, according to a report.
The Biden administration said last week it is prepared to rush weapons to Ukraine before Donald Trump's inauguration in January.
The Russian military last week conducted an extensive military exercise that included test firing nuclear-capable ballistic missiles amid growing tensions with the West over Ukraine.
The Biden administration announced last week that it will provide Ukraine with another $425 million in military assistance that will include “additional capabilities to meet its most urgent needs.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that the Western idea that it could inflict a strategic defeat on Russia is a “mere illusion” and grossly underestimates the country’s unity, spirit, and history, according to RT.
Russia’s envoy to the UN accused the West of training Ukrainian saboteurs in how to effectively target nuclear sites inside Russia, and warned that such an escalation could result in a “radiation nightmare” in Europe, according to RT.
Maria Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, seemed unfazed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s so-called “victory plan” and said it seemed more like a hodgepodge of “incoherent slogans” and “bloody foam on the lips of a neo-Nazi killer.”
The Biden administration announced last week that it will provide Ukraine with another $425 million in weapons support as Kyiv loses more ground to the Russians and as winter looms in the region.
The U.S. is prepared to provide the Group of Seven [G7] with about $20 billion in interest from Russian assets that have been frozen since the start of the Ukraine War.
Russian forces continued to make gains in Ukraine last week and managed to force the retreat of Ukrainians from the strategic coal mining town of Vuhledar in the country’s east.