Reports reaching the desk of Africa Today News, New York has it that the government of the United States has announced a further $205 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine to help the country with shortages of food, drinking water and other needs amid its ongoing war with Russia.
In a statement obtained on Saturday morning, top US diplomat Antony Blinken said that he aid, which will be distributed via partner NGOs in the region, was also aimed at helping victims of the conflict maintain contact with family members who have been separated.
‘We continue to call for an immediate end to Russia’s war of aggression and for Russia to facilitate unhindered access to providers of humanitarian assistance in Ukraine and safe passage for those who seek to move to safer areas,’ Blinken said.
Africa Today News, New York reports that since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, more than six million people have fled the country and more than five million have been internally displaced, according to the US State Department.
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The United States has provided more than $2 billion in humanitarian aid to Ukraine since the war started, the statement said.
And it has released nearly $40 billion in military aid to Ukraine to strengthen its defenses against occupying Russian forces in parts of the country’s east and south.
Meanwhile, Russia will not achieve any substantial military victory in Ukraine and Kyiv’s forces are unlikely to push back all Russian troops from their territory any time soon, the United State’s highest-ranking military official has hinted.
General Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, disclosed yesterday that; ‘This war, militarily, is not going to be won by Russia. It’s just not’.
Russia’s original strategic objectives, including toppling the government in Kyiv, ‘are not achievable militarily’, Milley told journalists after the conclusion of a virtual meeting of dozens of countries that are members of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which is also known as the Ramstein group.