
US to Send More Aid to Ukraine Amid Renewed Russian Onslaught: Blinken
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced a $2 billion fund to help Ukraine on Wednesday as Russian forces continue to ramp up their assault on the country. Mr. Blinken announced the foreign military financing during a press conference in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv alongside the country’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. The secretary of state said the aid is part of a “first-of-its-kind defense enterprise fund” and will be comprised of three separate components. The first component will provide weapons to Ukraine “today,” the second will invest in Ukraine’s defense industrial base to further strengthen its production capacity for itself and others, and the third component will help Ukraine purchase military equipment from other countries—not just the United States—for its own use, according to Mr. Blinken....
