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The weapons stockpile shortages will likely force Washington to delay the shipments of promised military aid to Ukraine, CNN reported on Friday, citing two US officials familiar with the matter.
The report comes as Kiev has been asking foreign backers to speed up the delivery of arms and to lift the remaining restrictions on the use of longer-range missiles for strikes deep into Russia territory.
According to the Pentagon, the US has $5.9 billion left in the special congressionally approved mechanism (PDA) aimed at fast-tracking aid for Kiev. However, the aid packages have been getting smaller in recent times as the weapons stocks are dwindling, CNN said.
The currently available PDA is set to expire within the next two weeks since the House of Representatives failed to pass an extension on Wednesday. The White House may be forced to charge its approach, “announcing large military aid packages that will take months to deliver,” as opposed to smaller shipments, the channel said.
Washington believes Kiev will need at least half a billion worth of PDA per month throughout fiscal year 2025, CNN report, citing a senior White House official.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Western officials warned Kiev that “a full Ukrainian victory” would require immense resources that neither the US nor Europe cannot provide.
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is expected to present his new “victory plan” to US President Joe Biden next week. The success of the plan would “directly depend on the approval and support of the United States,” Zelensky said.
Ukrainian commanders and politicians have repeatedly blamed the delays in weapons deliveries for battlefield losses and the failure to hold off Russian offensives.
Moscow, meanwhile, has stated that no amount of Western aid would stop its troops in Ukraine.
https://www.rt.com/news/604406-us-upcoming-aid-shortages-cnn/
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- By Gus Leonisky at 21 Sep 2024 - 12:51pm
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UNESCO vandal....
The Ukrainian city of Odessa has announced that it will demolish a monument to Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, even though it is in an area designated as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site.
The statue was erected in 1889 by the citizens of the Black Sea port to mark the time the celebrated artist spent in their city. Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov has cited this, among other reasons, to oppose its removal.
“It is scheduled for disposal, there is a signed order for its demolition,” the regional governor, Oleg Kiper, told Ukrainian media on Friday.
Following the 2014 US-backed coup in Kiev and the subsequent breakout of the war in Donbass, Ukraine launched a “decommunization” campaign to remove all traces of the Soviet Union from public life. In practice, the authorities also targeted monuments and toponyms with links to Russia.
After Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, the campaign was expanded to include “decolonization,” explicitly aimed against names and monuments associated with Russian historical figures.
Sometimes described as ‘Russia’s Shakespeare’, Pushkin is one of the founders of modern Russian literature. The iconic poet and writer visited Odessa several times and lived there from 1823 to 1824.
The city will need UNESCO’s approval to do anything to the monument, Ivan Liptuga, Odessa councilman in charge of culture and European integration, told reporters on Thursday. The entire area where the statue is located has been designated as a world heritage site, he said.
According to Kiper, however, the government in Kiev has excluded monuments to Soviet and Russian figures from the national register of cultural sites, which automatically removes them from UNESCO protection as well.
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has yet to comment on the controversial initiative.
“Pushkin is part of history and world culture. If we remove him from the pedestal in Odessa, he will not cease to be admired in France, England, or Italy,” Trukhanov argued last month.
“Today, all kinds of European delegations, European tourists come – they know who Pushkin was, and say that he was there, worked there, and wrote some of his works,”he added, noting that the monument was included in Odessa’s presentation to UNESCO and that the UN body is aware of it.
Moscow has repeatedly denounced Kiev’s crackdown on Russian culture and language, insisting that “forced Ukrainization” violates international law and infringes upon the rights of native Russian speakers, who make up a sizable minority in Ukraine.
https://www.rt.com/russia/604403-ukraine-demolish-unesco-monument/
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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.
OF COURSE THE WESTERN MEDIA WON'T MENTION THIS PROPERLY IF IT DOES..... ODESSA IS A RUSSIAN CITY IN YUCKRAINE BY ACCIDENT OF COMMUNISM SHARING....