Pentagon: Ukraine has received $119 billion in military aid so far
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency quoted by Reuters, “Lloyd Austin” the US Secretary of Defense (Pentagon) announced the start of military operations Russia in Ukraine in February 2022, the United States and its allies have spent more than 119 billion dollars The army and government of Ukraine have given military aid, which was 62 billion dollars from Washington.
In its latest military aid to Ukraine, the US government provided a military package worth 988 million dollars to the Ukrainian army.
Last week, the US Department of Defense also released a statement announcing that the US has been using the Joe Biden administration since its inception.” has provided nearly 62 billion dollars in military aid to Ukraine.
This statement states that since the beginning of Russian military operations in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the amount of US military aid to Ukraine has been 61.4 billion dollars.
previously also Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State announced that Washington will provide a new military aid package worth 725 million dollars to Ukraine, which will include a large amount of anti-personnel mines.
According to the Russian news agency “Sputnik”, in 2005, Ukraine ratified the “Ottawa Treaty”, which prohibits the use, stockpiling and production of anti-personnel mines.
Last week Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations, the action of the United States in providing anti-personnel mines to the Ukrainian army in order to condemn its use in the war against Russia.
Guterres wrote in a statement published on the United Nations website: Anti-personnel mines represent an immediate and obvious danger to It is civilians. Even after the war stops, these terrible and deadly weapons continue to endanger humans for generations.
He also asked world leaders to join the Ottawa agreement; A treaty that bans anti-personnel mines and 164 countries have signed it since its ratification and implementation in 1999.
On November 20, the Pentagon confirmed that the US government had authorized Ukraine to use anti-personnel mines. Earlier, the Washington Post reported that US President Joe Biden authorized the shipment of these weapons to Ukraine, and thus the previous policy of the country’s government, which was to transfer and use anti-personnel mines in He reversed the ban outside the Korean peninsula!
