Before leaving power on January 20, 2025, Joe Biden is working hard to ensure that some of his priorities cannot be called into question by his successor, Donald Trump. After having commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 sentenced to death by federal justice to life imprisonment, after the cancellation of the student debt of several tens of thousands of civil servants, the outgoing president wanted to once again assure Ukraine of his support, at a time when the country is subject to an increase in Russian bombings.
On Monday, December 30, his administration announced a new portion of economic and military aid to Ukraine, the twenty-second since February 2022 and the last, probably, of the Democratic presidency. Amount of this new assistance: nearly 6 billion dollars (5.75 billion euros), including 2.5 billion in military equipment and 3.4 billion in direct budgetary support to kyiv. A component considered massive in the context of the interregnum in the United States, but very far from the gigantic plan of 61 billion dollars which was laboriously adopted in the spring by Congress.
You have 78.71% of this article left to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
Swiss
