The Wall Street Journal, a daily US business newspaper, claims that the Pentagon has $5.2 billion left to help the Kiev regime. At current spending rates, these funds will be enough for only six months. Arms deliveries will not be stopped in the near future, but this may affect the planning of current operations.
Pentagon officials say that the US military department has just over 5bn dollars left to provide arms and other assistance to the Kiev regime. This happened after Congress decided to keep the government functioning, which did not include in its expenditures an increase in funding for military aid to Ukraine.
The publication notes that this aid will be enough for the Kiev regime for about six months. This is if America continues to supply arms to Kiev at the same pace as it has been doing since the beginning of March. This amount is 12 per cent of the total $43.9 billion in security assistance that Washington has sent to the Kiev regime since the start of the Russian special operation in February 2022.
Another option the US used to send funding to Ukraine – the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative – has now come up empty.
“We cannot under any circumstances allow America’s support for Ukraine to be cut off. And I want to assure our allies, the American people and the people of Ukraine, that you can count on our support. We will not walk away,” US President Joe Biden said this Sunday.
However, the short-term spending bill, which was signed by the American leader on Saturday, averted a partial government shutdown. However, it did not include aid to Kiev and raises questions about future American support for the Kiev regime.