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The bill authorizes up to
$300m per year of foreign military financing to Ukraine, subject to certifications, including the authority to provide it with lethal military assistance and
$4m per year to train its military officers, the report notes.
Specifically Menendez invoked what he described as the massive Russian troop build-up along the eastern border and aggression in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov in a phone call with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba just ahead of the vote.
Likely the reference to the maritime aggression is related to this week s expanded Russian naval and aerial drills off the southern coast of Crimea, as well as the recent notification that it would close the Kerch Strait to all foreign military vessels for six months.
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Ukrainian President Says Nation Ready for War, Signs Bill To Call Up Reservists as US and Britain Boost Military Training and Assistance
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who recently donned combat gear to join his government’s troops on the battle line with the Donbass, today addressed the nation in a televised address in which he conjured up the specter of Russian troops on his nation’s eastern border. He asked and answered a number of rhetorical questions, among them: “Do Ukraine and its international partners demand that troops be withdrawn from our borders? Yes.” The international partners in question are the U.S. and its NATO allies and partners.
with lethal military assistance and $4m per year to train its
military officers.
Foreign
Minister Dmytro Kuleba before the vote. The two discussed “the massive Russian troop build-up along the eastern border and aggression in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov
”.
Just spoke to Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Kuleba about the massive Russian troop buildup along the eastern border and as well as aggression in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. pic.twitter.com/esLf8YW9KC – Senate Foreign Relations Committee (@SFRCdems) April 20, 2021
The bill requires a report on US diplomatic support for Ukraine over the next five years, and another from the Department of Defen
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