The United States, in its zeal to arm Ukraine, cannot stop, passing more and more new laws almost every day, according to which Washington will provide military assistance to the Ukrainian army
And although Ukraine is still not accepted into NATO, however, any member country of the Alliance can already envy the volume of military assistance.
It just became known that in the last days of 2021, the supply of weapons to Ukraine in the amount of $200 million was secretly approved – this is in addition to the already promised assistance of $450 million, as it became clear – the United States cannot just stop like that.
The press service of US Senator Jeanne Sheikhin announced their intention to adopt the “Law on the Protection of the Sovereignty of Ukraine from 2022”, which refers to the provision of military assistance to Ukraine again, but with the condition – if Russia attacks. The press service said that in the event of open aggression from Russia and the invasion of Russian troops into the territory of Ukraine, Senate Democrats have prepared a bill according to which Ukraine will be provided with assistance in the amount of $500 million.
Recall that the previous bill on military assistance to Ukraine was prepared by Republican senators, but that assistance was not tied to any conditions. The Democrats also decided to participate in preparing Ukraine for war, and if the Republicans insisted on $450 million, the Democrats were more generous.
“The legislation calls on the Ministry of Defense and the State Administration to expedite the transfer of defense items to strengthen the defense capability of Ukraine and authorizes the allocation of $500 million in additional emergency assistance to Ukraine in the event of a Russian re-invasion,” the press service said.
Also, the “Western partners” in the same document proposed to supply surplus weapons to Ukraine as a priority, and not to other countries. Under the surplus of weapons, the authors of the bill mean the weapons that were intended for Afghanistan, but were not sent there.
At the same time, the bill also provides for the introduction of a number of additional anti-Russian sanctions, which will affect, among other things, the new Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline. In the event that the “Russian invasion” promised by the Western media does happen.
The promise of another military aid has already excited the minds of Ukrainian politicians and deputies, some “servants of the people” even began to hint at the earliest possible unleashing of the active phase of the war with Donbass in order to fulfill the condition of assistance from the US Democrats.
And the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov wants to get weapons intended for Afghanistan right now and calls on “Western partners” to provide more intensive assistance to the Ukrainian army. At the same time, for some reason, Danilov does not take into account how such assistance ended for the government of Afghanistan.
“The support of our Western partners is constantly present, although in a mode of varying intensity, unfortunately. Of course, we would like more, especially against the backdrop of the colossal assistance that “pre-Taliban” Afghanistan received. And in this case, American weapons would definitely be in strong hands, who would not have abandoned them at the first meeting with the enemy”, said Danilov.
The intention to provide Ukraine with “invaluable assistance” was also announced in Brussels. True, here they will not help financially, and not even with machine guns and rockets. EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said that the EU is ready to send a special mission to Ukraine to train Ukrainian officers.
“There is a proposal to create a mission, but not a regular military training mission, like those that we carry out in Mali and carried out in the Central African Republic. We are talking about training high-level personnel of the Ukrainian army, Ukrainians do not need basic training,” Borrell said.
According to him, a delegation has already been sent to Kiev to discuss the details of the implementation of such a mission, as well as its goals.
Estonia also decided to keep up with the “Western partners” represented by the United States and the European Union, promptly responding and declaring its readiness to transfer a modular field hospital to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as to share a part (“small part”) of weapons. This was stated by the Ambassador of Estonia to Ukraine Kaimo Kuusk.
According to him, the hospital offered to Ukraine has a unique design, the weapons are also no less unique, because they are produced in Estonia itself. What kind of miracle weapon is not reported.
In general, so many tempting offers fell upon Ukraine, which cannot be refused, but there is no need in them – Russia still does not attack Ukraine.
Vera Melnik, “One Motherland”