{"id":1595308,"date":"2022-08-08T18:03:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T22:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595308"},"modified":"2022-08-08T18:03:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T22:03:25","slug":"biden-administration-to-spend-additional-4-5-billion-to-keep-ukrainian-government-functioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-to-spend-additional-4-5-billion-to-keep-ukrainian-government-functioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration to Spend Additional $4.5 Billion to Keep Ukrainian Government Functioning"},"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%2Fbiden-administration-to-spend-additional-4-5-billion-to-keep-ukrainian-government-functioning%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=1595308&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>The United States will send out another $4.5 billion to help keep the Ukrainian government afloat, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The government of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>, which is running on a deficit almost six months into its full-scale military conflict with Russia, is expected to receive the first payment of $3 billion from the $4.5 billion later this month, according to USAID.<\/p>\n<p>Once these additional funds are fully disbursed, the total amount of budgetary support to Ukraine will reach $8.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese funds provided by the United States, through the World Bank, allow the Government of Ukraine to maintain essential functions to its people, including social and financial assistance to Ukrainians further pushed into poverty since the start of the war, children with disabilities, and internally displaced persons,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after\u00a0 USAID\u2019s announcement, the U.S. Department of Defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/3120059\/1-billion-in-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine\/\">stated<\/a> that it would also provide an additional $1 billion worth of \u201csecurity assistance\u201d to help Ukraine meet its \u201ccritical security and defense needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This $1 billion package provides \u201ca significant amount of additional ammunition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-weapons\">weapons<\/a>, and equipment\u201d the Ukrainian people need in their war effort, according to the Pentagon. Specifically, it includes, among many other things, 75,000 rounds of 155mm artillery ammunition, 20,000 rounds of 120mm mortar ammunition, 1,000 Javelin, and hundreds of AT4 anti-armor systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn total, the United States has now committed approximately $9.8 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden Administration,\u201d the Pentagon said.<\/p>\n<p>The announcements come amid questions surrounding \u201cArming Ukraine,\u201d a CBS documentary about military aid for Ukraine. In its initial Aug. 4 release, the documentary stated that most of the weapon shipments had gone missing on their way to the besieged Eastern European country.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary originally included a quote by Jonas Ohman, a Swedish-Lithuanian journalist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will send out another $4.5 billion to help keep the Ukrainian government afloat, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) said Monday. The government of Ukraine, which is running on a deficit almost six months into its full-scale military conflict with Russia, is expected to receive the first payment of $3 billion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"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-1595308","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\/1595308","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\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595308\/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=1595308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}