Developments in Ukraine The alarming situation of Kiev due to the lack of assistance from Washington

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, “Olga Stefanyshina” the first deputy prime minister of Ukraine in European and Euro-Atlantic integration affairs acknowledged at the Munich Security Conference that Kiev is in limbo because the US Congress cannot pass a bailout bill. It is now unclear what events Kiev should expect in the next few weeks, he warned.

The government official complained: “We are caught up in domestic events in the United States regarding Congressional funding and “We are in an uncertain situation. We worked side by side with our foreign partners and with their military support protecting our cities from airstrikes <...>, but now we don’t know what will happen in the next two weeks.”

He predicted that the problem of US aid to Ukraine will be solved in the near future. In addition, Stefanyshina added that the agreements signed with France, Great Britain and Germany on security guarantees make the situation somewhat predictable and allow strategic planning of Ukraine in the conflict with Russia.

Western countries have always provided financial aid to Kyiv for the past two years, but in Washington, the budget for additional aid to Ukraine for this year has not yet been approved.

In late January, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken warned that there was no “magic pot” in the White House that could fund Ukraine without coordinating requests in Congress. A few days ago, US Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the Joe Biden administration will work with both the Democratic and Republican parties to resume arms deliveries to Ukraine as soon as possible.

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Kiev hopes to sign a security agreement with the US before the NATO summit

Deputy First, the Prime Minister of Ukraine announced on European and Euro-Atlantic integration that the agreement on security guarantees with the United States may be signed before the NATO summit in Washington in July.

Olga Stefanyshina, in response to a question Regarding the possibility of signing a security guarantee agreement with the US at the upcoming NATO summit, he replied: “Tactically, negotiations have been conducted and a strategic statement has been accepted in this regard, and this decision can be taken earlier [from the NATO summit]”. He added that now Kiev’s attention is focused on the decision of the US Congress on the allocation of future aid. Of course, he expressed confidence that the security guarantee agreement will be signed.

NATO’s admission of over-optimism regarding the ability of Ukraine

Rob Bauer, the chairman of the committee Last night, on the sidelines of the Munich security conference, the NATO military admitted to “excessive optimism” regarding Ukraine’s situation in the military conflict with Russia on the part of Western countries. He mentioned this in an interview with the Financial Times on Sunday. Bauer also urged NATO to be “cautious” about how things are going in 2024.

Czech President, Petr Pavel, also announced at the Munich conference that Russia has learned many lessons from this conflict. He also called on the Western countries to show “similar flexibility” to Russia in order to resolve this conflict as soon as possible.

The former adviser to the head of the Pentagon believes that the United States is giving Ukraine orders to attack Russia.

Douglas McGregor, a former advisor to the head of the Pentagon, expressed his opinion in an interview that the US authorities gave orders to the Ukrainian leadership to attack Russian cities.

He said: “We (the US) order them (Kiev authorities) to use any missiles we can provide them, or drones to attack Russian cities and to cause damage. to use the Russians in the territory of this country”.

As McGregor pointed out, the inhumane actions carried out by the armed forces of Ukraine at the behest of the United States are similar to a senseless revenge and remain as when a person cannot achieve anything and decides destroy it

US Senator: Ukraine should be given weapons on credit

Lindsey Gram, Republican US Senator from South Carolina, announced on the CBS News program stated that the United States of America should provide its military aid to Ukraine in the form of credit and not in return.

He pointed out that this idea was proposed by the former US president, Donald Trump, and said: “Once again, the Europeans will allocate 33 billion dollars out of the 50 billion dollars they transfer to Ukraine.” They have made loans. Let us also do this by allocating loans, not for free.” Similarly, Gramm proposed doing the same for US aid to Israel and Taiwan. Mines are useful, they have a lot of resources. Israel is also a strong economy in the region, even if it has been seriously damaged after the events of October 7, Taiwan is also a “relatively rich country”.

Previously Trump announced that Ukraine and Israel should be provided with credit financing. He proposed to issue a loan in the amount of 60 billion dollars.

The key condition for achieving peace in Ukraine is to give territorial concessions to Russia

Peace in Ukraine can be achieved on the condition that Kiev gives territorial concessions to the Russian side. This issue was raised by US Senator from Ohio, James David Vance. In an interview, he expressed his opinion: “Any peace settlement will only be realized if Ukraine gives significant territorial concessions, and in this case we will have a peace agreement, because this is the only option to exit the conflict.”

Vance emphasized that America does not have the capacity to produce the necessary weapons to continue the conflict in Eastern Europe in the long term. The senator asked Western politicians to announce a specific time when the military conflict in Ukraine will end, because there is no prospect for it.

Politico: West is just trying to avoid failure Ukraine’s armed forces should be prevented

Politico newspaper, citing the words of American officials, reported that the United States, together with its allies among Western countries, is trying to prevent the collapse of Ukraine’s armed forces, while to prevent the loss of more territory and a severe shortage of the necessary number of ammunition. It is not just to allow the Ukrainian army to suffer a horrendous defeat.

Furthermore, it is said that at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, US officials are actively trying to convince their European allies that military aid to Kiev will be approved by the US House of Representatives. At the same time, according to the newspaper, the confidence of the allies in the capabilities of the armed forces of Ukraine, as well as in the US President, Joe Biden, is at a record low since the start of the military conflict.

Check during spent 710 million dollars in two years to help Ukrainian refugees

Ukrainian refugees who took refuge in the Czech Republic after February 24, 2022 and the start of the military conflict, during this period humanitarian aid totaled have received 16.33 billion kroner (about 710 million dollars); Currently, 383 thousand Ukrainian refugees live in this country. This issue was announced by the publication Idnes, referring to the data of the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Czech Republic.

The report states: “The government has also provided financial assistance to the families of Czech citizens who have taken in refugees. In total, they will be paid 2.84 billion kroner in solidarity contributions.

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According to the information of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about 383,000 refugees from Ukraine currently live in the Czech Republic, among them 98,000 children and adolescents – under the age of 18, 170,000 women – between the ages of 18 and 65. year and 15.5 thousand men and women are over the age of 65.

Burrell: The situation in Ukraine will be resolved in three months

Josep Burrell, responsible for politics The European Union’s foreign and defense chief announced on Sunday that the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine will be resolved within the next three months.

He said at the Munich Security Conference: “I don’t think that people at the top At the political, middle level, and at the general level, people understand that we are in a situation that requires a completely different approach. The situation is not simple; Let’s take a look at the Council of Foreign Ministers next month. No, in the next three months the situation on the battlefield will be resolved”. And had he done better, the situation on the battlefield could have been different.

Burrell also expressed the belief that the course of the conflict will be determined by drones and artificial intelligence.

Note Burrell, the EU’s lack of funds for the production of ammunition needed by Kiev, the head of EU diplomacy admitted that the association does not have a problem with the capacity to produce ammunition for Kiev, but there is a lack of funding in this regard. Josep Burrell said at the Munich Security Conference: “Our problem is not in the ammunition production capacity, but what we lack is the budget”. There are necessary and there is a need for orders.

French Defense Minister: new kamikaze drones will be delivered to Ukraine

He said: “It is very likely that in 2024 we will see a major breakthrough in the field of new military capabilities. One of these is the development of a new generation of kamikaze drones. This project is currently in the testing phase. Ukraine will be one of the first countries to receive these drones in the coming weeks.”

Lecorneau emphasized that such an approach would allow advanced testing of this technology on the battlefield. At the same time, he claimed that “France is not at war with Russia” and helping Ukraine is not participating in the conflict.

Foreign Policy magazine, citing its European sources, reported that Ukraine may receive American-made F-16 fighter jets in the coming months, and they will probably be delivered to Kiev in June.

This publication quoted the defense minister of Lithuania as saying: “I think we will see them in Ukraine in June”.

Furthermore, another European official who attended the Munich Security Conference also confirmed this information. As explained in the press, the government of Ukraine expects that by the end of the financial year in America (September), 12 pilots of this country will complete the training course to control these types of fighters.

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