{"id":35414,"date":"2024-12-02T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=35414"},"modified":"2024-12-03T00:23:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T06:23:26","slug":"pentagon-u-s-military-aid-to-ukraine-exceeds-62-billion-during-biden-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=35414","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon: U.S. military aid to Ukraine exceeds $62 billion during Biden administration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Russian Satellite News Agency, Washington, December 3. According to statistics from the Pentagon, the total amount of military aid provided by the United States to Ukraine during Biden&#8217;s administration exceeded US$62 billion, and the total amount since Russia launched special military operations has reached US$61.4 billion.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Pentagon bulletin noted: &#8220;U.S. security assistance to Ukraine has exceeded $62 billion since the Biden administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The report said the scale of support since February 24, 2022 was US$61.4 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on December 2 that a new round of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20241121\/1062765216.html\">military aid<\/a>&nbsp;would be allocated to Ukraine , totaling US$725 million, including a new batch of anti-personnel mines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ukraine ratified the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the use, stockpiling and production of anti-personnel mines, in 2005. Mark Sizner, a researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), said in his report &#8220;Mine Monitor 2023&#8221; that Ukraine had violated the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits anti-personnel mines, during the fighting in Izyum, Kharkiv Oblast in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Russia believes that providing weapons to Ukraine is hindering international mediation efforts and is causing NATO countries to be directly involved in the conflict, which is &#8220;playing with fire.&#8221; Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov once pointed out that any materials containing weapons to aid Ukraine will become a legitimate target of Russia&#8217;s attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20241203\/1062953539.html\">sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Satellite News Agency, Washington, December 3. According to statistics from the Pentagon, the total amount of military aid provided by the United States to Ukraine during Biden&#8217;s administration exceeded US$62 billion, and the total amount since Russia launched special military operations has reached US$61.4 billion. The Pentagon bulletin noted: &#8220;U.S. security assistance to Ukraine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":35415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[1169,4787,1500,1416],"class_list":["post-35414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-biden","tag-military-aid","tag-pentagon","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35416,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35414\/revisions\/35416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}