(ANSA-AP) - KIEV, SEPTEMBER 13 - Ukraine's president said
Friday that the United States hasn't only released $250 million
in military aid to his country but will also extend an
additional $140 million.
President Volodymyr Zelensky told a conference in the capital
Kyiv that Ukraine will get the new money on top of the sum that
was announced a day earlier. He said he welcomes the aid and is
thankful to the U.S. for its support of economic sanctions
against Russia, which annexed Ukraine's Crimea in 2014 and
funded separatists in Ukraine's east.
The Trump administration said Thursday that it has released
$250 million in military aid to Ukraine that had been held up.
It didn't mention additional funds. Zelensky's deputy chief of
staff Kirill Tymoshenko confirmed to The Associated Press after
the president's speech that Ukraine is indeed expecting an extra
$140 million from the U.S., but he wouldn't give detail on the
source or designation of the funds. (ANSA-AP).
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