U.S. Increases Military Aid to Ukraine Ahead of Presidential Transition

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🗓️ 3 December 2024

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The U.S. will send an additional $725 million in military aid to Ukraine, the State Department announced on Monday. That’s on top of more than $7 billion in weaponry the Biden Administration has already pledged to the country as it battles to stave off more territorial gains by Russia. The increase in aid comes amid fears among U.S. and NATO officials that president-elect Donald Trump will withhold support and force Ukraine to capitulate. We talk about the latest developments in a war that’s left hundreds of thousands dead and how a Trump Administration might handle it. Guests: Steven Pifer , affiliate, Center for International Security and Cooperation - Stanford University; former ambassador to Ukraine and a senior director at the National Security Council in the Clinton administration. Greg Myre, national security correspondent, NPR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:37.9	Biden administration officials announced yesterday another 725 million in military aid to Ukraine, on top of more than 7 billion in weaponry it pledged to the country to stave off more Russian territorial gains.
1:50.7	Meantime, Trump has promised to end the war in 24 hours once inaugurated, and last week named retired General Keith Kellogg to be his Russia-Ukraine special envoy.
2:02.2	We look at what it all means for the deadly three-year war. Join us. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. An exhausted Ukrainian
2:15.5	military is fighting to maintain its defensive lines as it deals with
2:19.6	a shortage of fighters. Meantime, Russia is deploying forces supplied by North Korea as it makes
2:25.3	territorial gains. Russia's momentum has spurred an end-of-term weapons push from the Biden
2:30.5	administration, which also recently allowed the use of missile strikes deep into
2:34.8	Russian territory. We look at where things stand in Russia's war on Ukraine, which has cost hundreds
2:40.4	of thousands of lives. As a new president who could significantly shift American policy toward the
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