Monday, September 23

US will give Ukraine $4.5 billion in aid

Janet Yellen, secretaria del Tesoro de Estados Unidos.
Janet Yellen, United States Secretary of the Treasury.

Photo: CHIP SOMODEVILLA / AFP / Getty Images

The United States will give Ukraine 4,1200 millions of dollars in aid so that the country can allocate these funds to budgetary needs such as hospital expenses, salaries of public employees and teachers and social assistance for the most vulnerable.

In a statement, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen , announced this new item that will be sent in the coming weeks and that “combined” with military aid is intended to be an important tool in Ukraine’s “resistance” to the invasion by Russia.

With this new reimbursement, US aid to Ukraine rises to 13, million dollars, according to the statement.

“We encourage other donors to speed up their assistance to Ukraine,” Yellen said on e This message in which he recalled that the US Treasury Department will continue to help the country with other tools such as the “historic sanctions” against Russia that are “weakening the war machine” of President Vladimir Putin.

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