Posted on 02/27/2023 9:24:43 AM PST by Kazan
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made a ‘surprise’ visit to Kiev on Monday to reinforce the US’s support for Ukraine.
Joe Biden was just in Ukraine giving Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky more US taxpayer money.
But that wasn’t enough.
Yellen is now in Kiev to announce another transfer of $1.25 billion to Ukraine.
Janet Yellen is also working to seize the $300 billion in Russian bank assets frozen by sanctions and transferring it to Ukraine to help rebuild the country.
Reuters reported:
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen swept into Kyiv on Monday on a surprise visit to reaffirm U.S. support for Ukraine in its struggle against Russia’s invasion and promote U.S. economic aid that is bolstering Ukraine’s war effort.
Yellen met with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other key government officials just days into the war’s second year, repeating U.S. assurances delivered by President Joe Biden a week ago in Kyiv.
“America will stand with Ukraine as long as it takes,” Yellen, flanked by sandbags at the cabinet ministers’ office, told Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.
Shmyhal, speaking through an interpreter, said the two discussed further U.S. sanctions on Russia aimed at weakening its economy and military and “confiscating frozen Russian assets and putting them to the benefit of the recovery of Ukraine.”
But Yellen told reporters in a phone briefing that there were still significant legal obstacles to fully seizing the $300 billion in Russian central bank assets frozen by sanctions.
Yellen also announced the transfer of the first $1.25 billion from the latest, $9.9 billion tranche of economic and budget assistance from Washington.
What does Zelensky have on her?.....................
didn’t yellen send the ukes $5bb last week?
is this just the down payment? or another tranche?
where does yellen get this authority?
mercenaries have to be paid to fight...
This story is being reported all over the place, so unfortunately it must be true.
Anyway, wouldn’t it be easier to just move the U.S. Treasury Department to Kiev?
That would save a lot of travel time.
/s
(I had to add the /s tag as Joe Biden could possibly read my post, and take it seriously.)
Authority? You think these people look for authority from us?
My thought, exactly. Yellen’s always been a worthless, leftist/globalist pig. You gotta love how useless, ugly pigs like her have no problem squandering our money on bullshit. More precisely, they have no problem transferring our money to themselves.
Yellin is another disgusting piece of trash who we would be better off without.
That'll tech them . . . not to invest in the West.
a
covid + energy transition + Ukraine
all plots to impoverish you and kill you - and vice versa
Authority? You think these people look for authority from us?
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duh.
sorry I went brain dead for a moment.
won’t let that happen again.
Tradition!
Not sure if stealing money from people because they come from a country you don’t like is a good idea in the long run. It would make everyone less likely to invest in America since it’s obviously not very secure .
dibba!
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