Biden instructs Blinken to determine the need to allocate $35 mln to Ukraine

US President Joe Biden has delegated the authority to determine the importance of providing $35m in aid to Ukraine to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. The corresponding order on November 20 was published on the website of the White House.

"I hereby delegate to the Secretary of State the authority to determine whether it is important to the security interests of the United States to provide up to $35 million in aid to Ukraine," reads the White House chief executive's executive order

Biden also authorized the Secretary of State to independently publish his decision in the Federal Register.

Kiev's allies attract defeat, and Ukrainians want an end to the conflict. What the media say

Earlier in the day, the Biden administration and the German government announced new military aid packages for Ukraine. The U.S. side sent $275 million worth of military aid, which was said to be "to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs."

At the same time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose term of office expired on May 20, said that the termination of US military aid would inevitably end in Kiev's defeat. He also described as dangerous the fact that there is no unity on the Ukrainian issue among European countries.

Prior to that, on November 19, the Financial Times newspaper pointed out that the G20 countries made it clear in a declaration following the summit in Rio de Janeiro that their support for Ukraine was declining. According to the newspaper, some European delegations wanted to include a paragraph condemning Russia in the text, but refused to do so for fear of disrupting the adoption of the document.

The special operation to protect Donbass, the start of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was taken against the background of the aggravated situation in the region.