Antony Blinken promises that ‘every dollar’ planned for Ukraine will be spent before Donald Trump arrives

Published on November 13, 2024 at 2:31 p.m. / Modified on November 13, 2024 at 2:33 p.m.

The operation could be called “Save the Furniture”. While Donald Trump is distilling his ministerial appointments little by little, Antony Blinken, Joe Biden’s head of diplomacy, organized a quick trip to Brussels, just to consolidate and above all accelerate the delivery of military aid to Ukraine. The fear that the new tenant of the White House will freeze aid to kyiv is real. For Antony Blinken, it is above all a question of anticipating the unraveling of American policy towards Ukraine which could occur as early as January 20. And to seek to re-motivate his European interlocutors, worried about the paradigm shift. “We are counting on Europeans and others to firmly support Ukraine,” he insisted, as kyiv came under a Russian missile and drone attack.

More than $60 billion in aid

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