'Our unity will not break': US, UK promise Ukraine new aid package to repel Russia invasion
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on during a meeting with Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at the Cabinet of Ministers in Kyiv amid the Russian invasion on Ukraine. The US promised aid is $717 million and the UK's $782 million.The United States and Britain on Wednesday promised a swift review of Ukraine's requests to ease restrictions on attacking inside Russia as they promised $1.5 billion in new aid ahead of a potentially difficult winter.
Blinken said the US would offer $717 million in fresh economic aid to Ukraine - half of it to support an electricity infrastructure that has been battered by Russian strikes as winter approaches.Blinken told reporters in Kyiv:"Putin will not outlast the coalition of countries committed to Ukraine's success, and he is certainly not going to outlast the Ukrainian people."
In an online post on Wednesday evening, President Volodymyr Zelensky noted that he had had"very substantive" talks with Blinken and Lammy, thanking both countries for their support."This includes the long-range weapons, the supply of combat brigades on the front lines, and the overall strategy for achieving a just peace."
Asked how Moscow would react, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the response"will be appropriate", without providing specific details. One key request by Ukraine is to loosen restrictions on US-supplied Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, which can hit targets up to 300km away.
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