State Dept. to Provide $125 Million for Ukraine’s ‘Urgent Energy Systems Needs’
(CNSNews.com) – Amid continued Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid, the U.S. State Department announced in a Jan. 18 press release that it will be providing $125 million to support Ukraine’s “urgent energy system needs.” These latest funds have been made available through the recently passed “Division M” of the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill.
“Russia has systematically targeted the energy grid in order to leave millions without power, water, or heat,” reads the Jan. 18 press release.
This installment of $125 million in funding “will be used to acquire essential industrial equipment to maintain water supply and heating systems in and around Kyiv,” said the State Department.
These funds have been made available to the State Department through the “Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023,” which is “Division M” of the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill passed in the final weeks of the 117th Congress to fund the government through fiscal year 2023.
This installment comes on top of an earlier provision of $53 million in energy assistance in late November to help Ukraine “persevere through the winter.”
As Russia’s Feb. 22, 2022 invasion of Ukraine nears its one-year anniversary, Western leaders have expressed determination to continue funding Ukraine’s efforts until Russian forces are expelled from the country. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin stated, “we will support Ukraine as long as needed: one year, two years, five years, 10 years, 15 years.”
“We will support Ukraine as long as needed: one year, two years, five years, ten years, fifteen years.”
Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin speaking at the World Economic Forum on European support for the US/NATO proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.pic.twitter.com/eXubIxDIZL
— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) January 18, 2023
In 2022, Finland spent around $300 million euros on assistance to Ukraine.
The Davos attendants’ words of affirmation for the continued armament of the Ukrainian military drew a response from Deputy Chair of Russia’s Security Council and former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who tweeted the following invocation of a potential nuclear conflict if Russia were to lose the ongoing war:
“Backward political good-timers in Davos reiterated: ‘To achieve peace, Russia must lose.’ None of them gets it that a nuclear power’s loss of a conventional war can lead to a nuclear one. Nuclear powers haven’t been defeated in major conflicts crucial for their destiny.”
Backward political good-timers in Davos reiterated: “To achieve peace, Russia must lose”. None of them gets it that a nuclear power’s loss of a conventional war can lead to a nuclear one. Nuclear powers haven’t been defeated in major conflicts crucial for their destiny
— Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) January 19, 2023
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Why don’t we just send all these supports of Ukraine to Ukraine and equip them with a uniform and a weapon and let them fight for them. Stop sending our money to the country that has already sold its people to the new world order. They will be dead after this war because everything will be taken from them.