{"id":568362,"date":"2021-06-18T20:51:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T00:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=568362"},"modified":"2021-06-18T20:51:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T00:51:48","slug":"biden-admin-freezes-sending-military-aid-package-to-ukraine-included-lethal-weapons-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-freezes-sending-military-aid-package-to-ukraine-included-lethal-weapons-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Freezes Sending Military Aid Package To Ukraine, Included Lethal Weapons: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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-admin-freezes-sending-military-aid-package-to-ukraine-included-lethal-weapons-report%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=568362&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Biden-Putin-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has reportedly frozen the sending of a $100 million military aid package to Ukraine that included lethal weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Security Council directed officials to put the package together, as Washington grew increasingly concerned over a massive Russian military buildup near the border with Ukraine and in the Crimean Peninsula,\u201d Politico reported. \u201cBut officials on the National Security Council ended up putting the proposal on hold after Russia announced it would draw down troops stationed near Ukraine and in the lead-up to President Joe Biden\u2019s high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report said that the aid package still existed and could be sent to Ukraine \u201cquickly,\u201d and The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/biden-putin-summit\/2021\/06\/15\/19657e2c-cd44-11eb-9b7e-e06f6cfdece8_story.html\">said<\/a> that the admin had not ruled out sending it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was past time to provide more for Ukraine\u2019s defense when Putin began amassing his troops on its border,\u201d Sen. James E. Risch (R-ID), the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said. \u201cHis drawdown should not have triggered a drawdown of U.S. support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed that the reports were \u201cnonsense,\u201d saying that the admin had already provided an aid package to Ukraine that had been appropriated by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have also prepared contingency funds in the event of a further Russian incursion into Ukraine,\u201d she said. \u201cAs President Biden told President Putin directly, we will stand unwavering in support for Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty and territorial integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the Biden administration waived sanctions against Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which analysts say will cause significant harm to Ukraine. The Trump administration had taken action to stop Russia from completing the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/ukrainealert\/nord-stream-2-threat-ukraine-and-eu-neighbors-must-expand-border-infrastructure\/\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><em>If the pipeline is completed and becomes operational, the outlook for Ukraine and wider European gas markets will raise concerns. This is not just for the reasons that have been repeatedly quoted, such as Ukraine\u2019s loss of transit revenue and greater exposure to potential Russian military aggression, but also because of fears over supplies to Ukraine\u2019s internal market and the ability of European companies to access Ukrainian storage facilities.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has reportedly frozen the sending of a $100 million military aid package to Ukraine that included lethal weapons.\u201cThe National Security Council directed officials to put &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280747,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Biden-Putin-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Admin Freezes Sending Military Aid Package To Ukraine, Included Lethal Weapons: Report","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Biden-Putin-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Admin Freezes Sending Military Aid Package To Ukraine, Included Lethal Weapons: Report","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568362","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=568362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}