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The Biden administration will send another $800 million to Ukraine as part of a security and military aid package that could be announced as early as Friday amid fears of a possible attack on Ukraine’s nuclear sites. They are reportedly preparing.
According to Reuters, President Joe Biden may authorize the funding through presidential drawdown authority, the president’s ability to reallocate defense supplies from the Pentagon to foreign countries in times of crisis, and Biden has so far been in Ukraine. was used to support
The amount of the aid package is subject to change before a final decision, according to Reuters, citing “three sources familiar with the matter.”
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The French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) said that as the country feared that Russia might mount an attack on the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Ukraine would ” We are conducting nuclear defense exercises to be prepared for any scenario.โ
Russian news agency RT reports that Russia is also preparing an attack, arguing that Ukrainian forces may set fire to a nuclear power plant and take responsibility for its destruction.
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Biden has used his presidential drawdown powers at least 18 times to help Ukraine since August 2021 to bolster Ukraine’s defenses against Russian aggression.
“Through this process, the United States will provide significant military assistance to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia’s gratuitous and brutal aggression, which amounts to an internationally condemned war crime,” the State Department said in a press release last month. I am doing,” he said.
The State Department has previously said that assistance does not require congressional approval and can be sent within days or hours of Biden authorizing the action.
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The numbers are sizable, as Congress steadily raises the drawdown cap from $100 million in recent years to $11 billion.