Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that the United States is sending an additional $4.5 billion in financial aid to Ukraine to fund social security payments and salaries for doctors and teachers.
“The United States will send an additional $4.5 billion in financial aid to Ukraine, to help fund social security payments and salaries for doctors and teachers, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a press release.
‘Today, the United States continues to maintain its unwavering commitment to Ukraine by mobilizing an additional $4.5 billion in direct budgetary support grants’, said Yellen.
These funds will be disbursed in the coming weeks and will help the Ukrainian government maintain economic stability and provide basic public services, including salaries for hospital workers, civil servants, and teachers.
‘Combined with our security assistance and the tremendous courage of the Ukrainian people, these funds are an important tool in Ukraine’s resistance to Putin’s unprovoked invasion’, she added”. -Yahoo News
Despite never officially declaring war, with U.S. budgetary support for Ukraine totaling in the tens of billions of dollars, there is no lack of certainty that the United States is actively at war with Russia via proxy.
Conversely, the Kremlin has displayed a tremendous level of restraint while demonstrating a stark contrast to the U.S. "shock and awe" methods by not unleashing the full might of its military against Ukraine or its allies.
Vladimir Putin made clear that he is not an enemy of Americans or Europeans but of the neoliberal, mercantile, and cosmopolitan elite that rules over them.
One wonders at what point Russia will feel justified in firing hypersonic missiles and doing to a city in the United States what the United States has done to Lysychansk, if not already.