Kuleba had another conversation with Blinken on weapons/AP
Today, May 24, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba spoke with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. During the conversation, the issues of armaments were raised, as well as the alleged food crisis in the world.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs wrote about this on his Twitter. Earlier, he said that Ukraine has established two alternative land routes for the delivery of food.
Ukraine will get even more weapons: Dmitry Kuleba's new statement
According to the minister, during a conversation with Anthony Blinken, he expressed gratitude to the US government “for their iron support of Ukraine.” Now our state expects even more arms supplies from Western partners.
More weapons, including heavy weapons, are heading to Ukraine as Russia continues its devastating attacks in the Donbas, wrote he.
Kuleba added that the conversation also talked about ways to unblock Ukrainian ports in Ukraine to restore exports and ensure global food security. Recall that in April Russia blocked the sea routes and purposefully destroyed the fuel infrastructure in order to disrupt the sowing.
Lend-Lease and additional assistance from the United States: in short
- On May 9, Joe Biden signed the Lend-Lease Act for Ukraine. Its signing means that now the United States will send us more assistance (including military) in the shortest possible time.
- The head of the public league “Ukraine-NATO” Serhiy Dzherdzh stressed that such a step is a super-powerful signal to Kyiv about unconditional and the comprehensive support of our state from Washington. At the same time, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov believes that this is a kind of US participation in the war without sending troops.
- On May 19, the Senate of the US Congress approved the allocation of additional assistance to Ukraine.
- On May 22, Joe Biden signed into law a $40 billion grant to Ukraine. The main amount will be directed to weapons for Ukraine. Another part of the funds will be directed to support the Ukrainian economy.
On that they will send $40 billion from the USA/Channel 24 Infographics
- After the Senate approved the law, Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the American people and noted that this is a significant contribution of the United States to restoring peace and security in Ukraine, Europe and the world as a whole.
- US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that 20 more countries are ready to announce new security assistance packages for Ukraine. Italy, Greece, Norway, Poland, Denmark, the Czech Republic and a number of other countries will join the initiative.
