US President, Joe Biden has called the US military aid to Ukraine a ‘direct investment’ to protect democracy stressing that the country was doing everything possible to ensure the strategic failure of Russia.
Speaking to pressmen on Tuesday Biden said; ‘Since Russia invaded Ukraine just over two months ago, we have sent more than $3bn in security assistance to Ukraine – alone us, not counting our allies’.
‘That money is a direct investment in defending freedom and democracy itself, because if you don’t stand up to dictators, history has shown us they keep coming… their appetite for power continues to grow.’
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Biden went on to add that Ukrainian forces are ‘making fools of the Russian military in many instances’ with the help of US military aid.
Africa Daily New York reports that Russian strikes have killed no fewer than 21 civilians and wounded 27 in eastern Ukraine, the governor of the Donetsk region has said.
‘At least 10 killed and 15 wounded, the consequences of the shelling of the Avdiivka coke plant by the Russian occupiers,’ Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Telegram.
Kyrylenko also claimed that five others were killed in shelling in the town of Lyman, four were killed in the town of Vugledar, and two people were killed in the villages of Velyka Novosilka and Shandrygolove.
He said this was the highest death toll since a Russian strike on a train station in the city of Kramatorsk killed 59 people about a month ago.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for more humanitarian pauses after a safe passage operation allowed more than 100 civilians to leave a besieged steel plant in the war-torn port city of Mariupol.
‘I hope the continued coordination with Kyiv and Moscow will lead to more humanitarian pauses that will allow civilians safe passage away from the fighting and aid to reach people where the needs are greatest,’ Guterres said in a statement which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York.
Military support to Ukraine by the United States and its allies is helping make the invasion a “strategic failure” for Russia, US President Joe Biden has said.
