U.S. Announces Another $4.5B for Ukraine, Days After Zelensky Caught Trying to Con NATO Into WW3

The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and in coordination with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Department of State, is providing an additional $4.5 billion in direct budgetary support to the Government of Ukraine. The funding, which will help alleviate the acute budget deficit caused by Putin’s brutal war of aggression, was made possible with generous bipartisan support from Congress. The Government of Ukraine will receive the funding in two tranches before the end of 2022.

[...] Once these additional funds are fully disbursed, the U.S. government will have provided $13 billion in direct budgetary support to the Government of Ukraine.

🇺🇦🏴‍☠️🇷🇺AFU showing a video of war crimes...

That is where the tax money is going...

They don't even care if they show their faces... pic.twitter.com/XJ6FPaA2Hx

— AZ 🛰🌏🌍🌎 (@AZgeopolitics) November 18, 2022

While acknowledging concern over videos that showed Ukrainian forces executing captured Russian soldiers, the US war crimes envoy has argued that allegations against Kiev's forces pale in comparison to Moscow's alleged atrocities.

"We are obviously tracking that quite closely," Beth Van Schaack, US ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice, told reporters in a telephone briefing on Monday. "It's really important to emphasize that the laws of war apply to all parties equally, both the aggressor state and the defender state, and this is in equal measure."

However, Van Schaack added, "when it comes to the war in Ukraine, that's really where the equivalency ends. When we're looking at the sheer scale of criminality exhibited by Russian forces, it's enormous compared to the allegations that we have seen against Ukrainian forces."