Three aid packages for Ukraine: Blinken announced the details

In particular, the total amount of three packages exceeds $700 million.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced three aid packages worth hundreds of millions of dollars for Ukraine.

According to the UNIAN correspondent, he did this in Kyiv at a joint press conference with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiga and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Great Britain David Lammy.

As Blinken noted, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is once again targeting Ukraine’s energy facilities for strikes in order to use the cold as a weapon against Ukrainians.

“That’s why today we’re announcing $325 million in new funding to help Ukraine repair its energy and electricity grids,” Blinken said.

The secretary of state also said the US is gathering additional aid from the G7 and other nations when the energy coordination group meets in Vienna in a few weeks.

“I’m also announcing today $290 million in humanitarian support to help provide vital services, such as clean drinking water, food, shelter, medicine, to the millions of people in Ukraine displaced by Putin’s war,” Blinken said.

In addition, he announced $102 million in additional funding for humanitarian demining needs to help remove Russian landmines and unexploded ordnance.

(C)UNIAN 2024