Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that The decision by the United States to send another $725 million (€690 million) military aid package to Ukraine shows that the administration of outgoing US President Joe Biden is determined to “add fuel to the fire” of the war in Ukraine to ensure the continuation of the conflict.. TASR informs about it according to a Reuters report.
The head of American diplomacy Antony Blinken in a statement on Monday announced a new aid package for Ukraine, including Stinger missiles, munitions for Highly Mobile Artillery Missile Systems (HIMARS), drones and anti-personnel mines.
“The current (US) administration is pursuing its goalher consistent line is to prevent this war from slowing down,” Peskov said. “The (Biden) administration is doing everything to add more fuel to the fire. This and other packages cannot change the course of events, they cannot affect the dynamics on the fronts“, the Kremlin spokesman added.
Reuters already reported last week that the Biden administration plans to provide this equipment, a large part of which is anti-tank weapons, to repel attacking Russian troops. The agency noted that this is an unusually high financial value of military aid. The size of previous presidential packages, called the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), which allows the US to draw on the current stockpile of weapons to help allies in case of emergency, has usually ranged from $125 million to $250 million.
It is estimated that Biden has between four and five billion dollars available from the PDA approved by Congress, which he is likely to use to help Ukraine even before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump in January. writes Reuters.
