{"id":72947,"date":"2024-06-14T12:18:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T12:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/ukraine-welcomes-pledges-of-more-military-aid-with-cautious-optimism\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T12:18:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T12:18:23","slug":"ukraine-welcomes-pledges-of-more-military-aid-with-cautious-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/ukraine-welcomes-pledges-of-more-military-aid-with-cautious-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Welcomes Pledges of More Military Aid With Cautious Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/14\/multimedia\/14g7-ukraine-react-bcpf\/14g7-ukraine-react-bcpf-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,549&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ukraine Welcomes Pledges of More Military Aid With Cautious Optimism\" title=\"Ukraine Welcomes Pledges of More Military Aid With Cautious Optimism\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere will also be more equipment and other necessary supplies for the front,\u201d Mr. Zelensky said in his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/golovnij-rezultat-samitu-g7-dlya-nas-bude-bilshe-ppo-dlya-na-91517\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">evening address on Thursday<\/a>, striking an unusually upbeat tone. Unlike his most recent speeches, which focused on the difficult situation at the front line, those remarks read like a list of successful agreements reached with Kyiv\u2019s allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine also signed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/13\/world\/europe\/japan-ukraine-security-zelensky.html\" title=\"\">a security pact with Japan<\/a> on Thursday and, at an international conference in Berlin this week, secured more than $15 billion in promised aid from Western partners to help rebuild the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The various commitments came too late to help Ukraine avoid losing ground in the northeast and having its power plants crushed by Russian missiles. And Ukrainian officials and experts said that while the new deals would secure military support for Ukraine in the medium term, they fell far short of the level of support Ukraine needs to win the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn Ukraine, this is perceived with cautious optimism,\u201d said Serhii Kuzan, the chairman of the Ukrainian Center for Security and Cooperation, an independent research group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are sincerely grateful for any help, and if we receive all the necessary weapons and ammunition on time, it will give us a chance to stabilize the front line,\u201d Mr. Kuzan said. \u201cBut this is not enough to talk about the liberation of the occupied territories and victory as such.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, Ukrainian officials have been enthusiastic about the security agreement with the United States. It is one of 17 similar arrangements signed with Western allies in recent months, each meant to provide Ukraine with sufficient security assistance to deter further Russian assaults, including deliveries of key weapons, training of troops and intelligence sharing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cGiven the nature of U.S. resources and its central role in NATO,\u201d the pact signed by Presidents Zelensky and Biden on Thursday \u201cis the most important of all these agreements,\u201d Mick Ryan, a retired Australian general and fellow at the Lowy Institute, a Sydney-based research group, said in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/mickryan.substack.com\/p\/a-new-us-ukraine-security-agreement?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1198399&amp;post_id=145631515&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=2zlf67&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">an initial assessment<\/a> of the security deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Andriy Yermak, the head of Mr. Zelensky\u2019s office, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/ermaka2022\/4822\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said in a statement<\/a> that the pact was \u201cthe strongest of all agreements\u201d between Ukraine and the United States, because it commits Washington to providing \u201ca stable level of assistance to Ukraine every year for 10 years, covering key aspects of assistance, including defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And while the agreement did not include concrete assurances of funding from the United States, Mr. Yermak said its commitments differentiated the pact from the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which many Ukrainians say has failed to protect their country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Under that memorandum, Ukraine agreed to return to Russia old Soviet nuclear weapons based on its territory in exchange from security guarantees from Russia, the United States and Britain. But the agreement did not detail what the security guarantees entailed, and included no promise of military assistance in the event of an attack. Ukrainian officials say that gave Russia free rein to attack their country, as it did starting in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Whether the new security agreement will fundamentally change the situation is unclear. The pact contains only pledges to work with Congress to secure additional military assistance, a task that may prove arduous given the Republican objections that delayed the passage of a multibillion-dollar arms package for months earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">What\u2019s more, the new agreement can be terminated by either party, meaning that former President Donald J. Trump, who has repeatedly expressed his opposition to continued support for Ukraine, could abandon the deal if he defeats Mr. Biden in November\u2019s election and returns to office next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, residents expressed skepticism about the various deals signed between Ukraine and its Western allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s not clear exactly what the security agreements will give us, when they will come into effect, or if it\u2019s just a communication effort,\u201d said one resident, Ihor Kalashnyk. \u201cOverall, what do they mean? What do they provide? No one understands.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Biden said the deal put Ukraine on the road to NATO membership. But he has consistently opposed admitting the country to the military alliance while the war is ongoing, fearing that doing so could one day force American troops into direct combat with the Russian military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The most pressing issue for Ukraine remains securing additional arms supplies. Mr. Zelensky said on Thursday that a recently approved multibillion-dollar American military aid package would allow Ukraine to equip more reserves to replace exhausted troops on the front line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">New ammunition from the package has already reached Ukrainian troops, soldiers and commanders have said in recent interviews, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/07\/world\/europe\/ukraine-war-russia-artillery.html\" title=\"\">helping stabilize their defenses<\/a>. Moscow has for months benefited from an advantage in the number of shells it fires, sometimes reaching a ratio of 10 Russian shells fired for every Ukrainian shell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To supply its own troops as the war stretches further into its third year, Russia has increasingly relied on weapons shipments from allies like Iran and North Korea. South Korea\u2019s defense minister <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-06-14\/kim-sent-russia-millions-of-artillery-shells-south-korea-says?srnd=europe-politics\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told Bloomberg<\/a> on Friday that North Korea had sent containers to Russia that could hold up to 4.8 million artillery shells.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/14\/world\/europe\/ukraine-biden-military-aid.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere will also be more equipment and other necessary supplies for the front,\u201d Mr. Zelensky said in his evening address on Thursday, striking an unusually upbeat tone. Unlike his most recent speeches, which focused on the difficult situation at the front line, those remarks read like a list of successful agreements reached with Kyiv\u2019s allies. 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