{"id":1224056,"date":"2022-01-19T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1224056"},"modified":"2022-01-19T09:10:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T14:10:25","slug":"u-s-delivers-promised-military-aid-to-ukraine-as-russia-issues-security-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-delivers-promised-military-aid-to-ukraine-as-russia-issues-security-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Delivers Promised Military Aid to Ukraine as Russia Issues Security Demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-delivers-promised-military-aid-to-ukraine-as-russia-issues-security-demands%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1224056&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The Biden administration said Wednesday an additional $200 million in unspecified defensive military aid is on its way to Ukraine as Russia issued&nbsp;demands for sweeping security guarantees in the troubled region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-199 Component-p-0-2-190\">A senior U.S. State Department official said the assistance was approved in late December as part of American efforts to help Ukraine protect itself, AP<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/antony-blinken-jen-psaki-vladimir-putin-sergey-lavrov-congress-1df536e9a832830dc3bae2e89aef4116\"> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-199 Component-p-0-2-190\">Until Wednesday, however, the administration had refused to comment on it. The official who briefed AP wasn\u2019t authorized to discuss the matter publicly before&nbsp;U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived for meetings in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-199 Component-p-0-2-190\">\u201cWe are committed to Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity and will continue to provide Ukraine the support it needs,\u201d the official said. The official did not detail the contents of the aid package.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-199 Component-p-0-2-190\">The announcement came as Blinken and other administration officials ramped up warnings about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19543970\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1233483487.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19543970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1233483487-1024x654-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"632\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L), U.S .President Joe Biden (2nd L), Russian President Vladimir Putin (2n R) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) pose for press ahead of the US-Russia summit at the Villa La Grange, in Geneva on June 16, 2021. (MIKHAIL METZEL\/SPUTNIK\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-199 Component-p-0-2-190\">The White House said Tuesday that Russia could at any point launch an attack in Ukraine, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/18\/white-house-russia-could-launch-attack-ukraine-any-point\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With tens of thousands of Russian troops massing on Ukraine\u2019s borders, efforts have intensified to prevent tensions escalating into a new European war.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a joint press conference with visiting German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said there would be no further negotiations until the West responds to its demands for sweeping security guarantees.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19543986\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237822277.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19543986\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237822277-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks as he greets embassy staff at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv on January 19, 2022 as part of a two-day visit in Ukraine. (ALEX BRANDON\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>They include a permanent ban on Ukraine joining NATO.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has rejected the demands.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken arrived in Ukraine early on Wednesday. His visit will be followed by a trip to Berlin on Thursday for four-way talks with Britain, France and Germany to seek Western unity.<\/p>\n<p><em>AP, AFP contributed to this report<\/em><\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration said Wednesday an additional $200 million in unspecified defensive military aid is on its way to Ukraine as Russia issued\u00a0demands for sweeping security guarantees in the troubled &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}