kraine is on the back foot in its conflict with Russia but renewed American military aid should turn the tide, a spokesman for the Department of State has said.
Kiev’s forces have experienced a series of setbacks on the battlefield in the east of the country over the past several months. They are now under increasing pressure in the north since Russia launched an offensive in Kharkov Region. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Ukraine this week in a gesture of support.
”Obviously the situation is incredibly dire,” Department of State spokesman Vedant Patel told journalists on Thursday. “We know that this is a challenging time, but we are sure that military aid is also going to make a real difference on the battlefield.”
Blinken announced an additional package of weapons aid worth $2 billion during his visit, the official added.
According to Russian officials, Kiev had an opportunity to strike a peace deal with Moscow in 2022, under which it would have agreed to a neutral status and restrictions on the strength of its army in exchange for security guarantees. President Vladimir Zelensky instead chose to continue fighting, claiming that Western aid would allow his nation to capture all the territories that it considers its own.
The Ukrainian leadership has been blaming its military failures on a shortage of foreign donations, though officials have been careful not to call out the US specifically. When asked by ABC News on Thursday whether the situation in Kharkov was America’s fault, Zelensky said it was “the world’s fault” for supposedly giving Russia an opportunity to advance.
@RightElandLibertarian2wks2W
Trying to expand NATO to the borders of Russia was provocative and therefore bad foreign policy. It's time for everyone to cut their losses, redraw the borders and most of all, stop the dying.
Except that most of Ukraine wants to be in the West. Even the Russian speakers in the east who have been bombed and displaced are not loyal to Putin, if they ever were.
Since when do we malign as "bad foreign policy" the principle that Russia should not dominate unwilling democratic countries with impunity. That ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
@Freedom762wks2W
Instead of printing money and trying to take over the world with all these endless proxy wars in Ukraine, Israel, and soon Taiwan, we should return to our Founders' non-interventionist policy of "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
Blinken just told Ukraine that they can now use American weapons to attack targets inside russia. Unfortunately, that should have been the policy beginning 2/24/2022.
Biden needs to announce that US will do everything to help Ukraine defeat putin and russia and remove them from all Ukrainian territory.
Don't start with the russian talking points like "nuclear attacks" and "starting WW3."
@WidgeonGenesisGreen2wks2W
Will the US risk a nuclear war in its territories if Russia uses tactical nuclear bombs in Ukraine, killing several hundred thousands of Ukrainians?
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With respect, leave the Constitution Party, @VibrantGr4ssroot. They are a non-interventionist, non-imperialist party that does not want to print hundreds of billions more to subsidise a senseless slaughter seven thousand miles from our shores.
@ElephantGaryDemocrat2wks2W
The Russians taking advantage of the Ukraine's shortage of weapons due to Republican intransigence.
The Ukraine's had enough of a disadvantage in numbers of soldiers and weaponry, - the last thing they needed was a Republican/Putin alliance, but sadly that's what has occurred. Let us all hope that it's not too late for the latest influx of weapons to change the outcome of this war.
@HumanRightsPuma2wks2W
Let's agree that the purely political delay in the $60 billion dollars worth of weapons by the Republicans was a disgrace, and has hurt the Ukranians.
But to imagine that had those weapons, in addition to the $360 billion other weapons the world had already provided, come earlier they would have some how tipped the balance of this war in favor of a desperately outnumbered, war-torn Ukraine is just ridiculous, and just as partisanly motivated as the delay in weapons. All it may have done is delay the inevitable a bit longer.
Without NATO getting into a catastrophic war, Ukraine was bound to lose. They've been losing since day one, just much, much more slowly than anyone ever imagined.
@V3toWillowRepublican2wks2W
It may be too late to save Ukraine. The US had/has hundreds of ATACMS that are useful but out of date, slated for disposal. The US could/could have saved money by providing those weapons to Ukraine. Ukraine could have used the to preclude Russia from building multi-layer defenses inside Ukraine, but Biden would not permit that.
Ukraine could have used those ATACMS to take out critical Russian military assets on the Russian side of the border, Biden would not permit that.
Biden has been fighting for Russia since day one. He is a disgrace. Afghanistan wasn't a big enough loss for the US from Biden's perspective, he insists on making the US into the world's clown.
@Lobby1stAveryPatriot2wks2W
The astonishing carnage in Ukraine is all on Biden. The original authorization from Congress was fully enough if it had been promptly provided, as the legislation so provided. Biden and Blinken arrogantly played games with the first appropriation, necessitating the second.
I am absolutely disgusted by how this Administration has failed to lead fully half the countries in Europe to provide weapons to Ukraine, and utterly failed at the wholly inadequate Russian sanctions. Finally, allowing China to do what Trump wouldn’t let them do with Iran? Seriously?
@SheepishGrizzlyForward2wks2W
The Russians are throwing everything they have in their current advance in anticipation of a Trump victory. They will seize a few villages, but major victories will be thwarted as Ukraine finally receives its long delayed military replenishment. Russia would not have attempted this large scale attack had Johnson and the Republicans, in support of Trump’s pro-Putin policy, had not delayed the aid package for Ukraine.
Saddening the Ukrainian people are the true victims of power politics and few rulers flex their authority to keep their authoritarian regime alive. Each meaner than other.
No winners in war,only death and destruction for the people.
@BrainyStorkNo Labels2wks2W
So, there's Israel's defiant occupation of Rafah and Russia's continuing gains into Ukraine, and inflation continues to rise. Good thing there's Michael Cohen's riveting testimony to keep our attention diverted elsewhere.
@Freedom762wks2W
That's why we shouldn't be involved in it!
@MindfulStorkGreen2wks2W
All of these recent Russian gains are the direct result of the intransigence of the radical right Republican faction in the House of Representatives in their refusal to pass a bill to aide the Ukrainians. They act as Russian agents inside our own government, MTGreen and Mike Johnson and others. Now aide to the Ukrainians is on the way, but way late for this recent Russian offensive.
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