The Russian Embassy in Washington issued a trenchant comment on Dec. 30 on the Biden Administration’s latest arms package for the Kiev regime, announced yesterday to the tune of nearly $2.5 billion. “With its departure approaching day by day, the administration seeks to fully empty the pockets of American taxpayers to support the obviously failing Ukrainian project,” the embassy commented on its Telegram channel. “Washington hopes that the bloodstained gift to Zelenskyy will symbolize a chance for the Kiev junta to provide ‘worthy’ resistance to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The planners here still live in a dream world, hoping to inflict strategic defeat on our country.
“The efforts by the United States only prolong the convulsions of neo-Nazis in Kiev,” continued the message.
“We urge the American public and citizens of Ukraine to think about what the insane actions of the Western curators of Bandera’s followers will lead to in the end, apart from more disasters for the Ukrainian people.”
The package announced by the White House includes $1.25 billion worth of hardware to be drawn further from Pentagon stocks (Presidential Drawdown Authority or PDA) and $1.22 billion in contracting under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. While the published list of munitions includes rocket ammunition for the HIMARS launchers, it does not include ATACMS missiles (though they could be supplied without being listed), which are reported to be in short supply in Ukraine.
