The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday announced a new economic aid package for Ukraine, this time valued at $4.5 billion, to «defend against the illegal war» provoked by Russia.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has detailed that these new funds will begin to arrive in Ukraine during the «coming weeks» to «bolster economic stability and support basic government services,» including salaries for public servants, such as doctors and teachers.
Yellen stressed that these funds represent a fundamental help in «Ukraine’s resistance» to the «unprovoked invasion» of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that they come in addition to the budget items previously sent by Washington, as well as to «the immense courage of the Ukrainian people».
The aid of this type that the United States has already issued since the beginning of the war, Yellen remarked, has amounted to 13 billion. Washington has asked its partners to continue to support Ukraine, while continuing to sanction Russia «to weaken Putin’s war machine».
