Posted on 04/20/2024 9:54:50 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Today, We Received a Decision – the U.S. Assistance, Which Will Be Felt by Both the Warriors on the Frontline, and the Cities and Villages Suffering from Russian Terror – Address by the President 20 April 2024 - 21:30
Dear Ukrainians!
From early morning today, various regions of our country have been experiencing air alerts and Russian strikes. From the east to the south... Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk regions, Kherson and the region, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions. Missiles, drone strikes, artillery. There is a lot of destruction — houses, port infrastructure, and energy facilities. There are casualties and, unfortunately, fatalities.
My condolences to their families and loved ones. Throughout the day, our air defense system was in action, there were responses to Russian strikes, the rescuers of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, and all the services performed their duties.
But this day is still a little different. Today, we received the long-awaited decision: the American support package we've been fighting for so hard. And it is a very significant package that will be felt by both our warriors on the frontline and our cities and villages suffering from Russian terror. The U.S. House of Representatives voted today.
I thank everyone who supported our package – this is a life-saving decision. I am grateful personally to Speaker Mike Johnson, to all American hearts who, like us in Ukraine, feel that Russian evil definitely should not prevail. I hope that the package will be considered in the U.S. Senate and submitted to President Biden’s desk quickly enough.
We appreciate every manifestation of support for our state and independence, for our people, and for our lives that Russia wants to bury in ruins. America has shown its leadership from the very first days of this war. And this kind of American leadership is crucial for the maintenance of an international order in the world based on rules and predictability of life for all nations. We will certainly use American support to strengthen both our nations and bring a just end to this war closer – a war that Putin must lose.
And I thank the entire Ukrainian team, everyone who works and does everything to bring this outcome closer. I thank all the representatives of our state, all our diplomats who are working to increase the support for Ukraine, all the representatives of the public sector, every volunteer, all the friends of Ukraine. I am grateful to my team. The world unites for Ukraine when Ukrainians unite for independence.
And today I would like to honor those of our people who have shown their best in the aftermath of the Russian strikes over the week – helping people, protecting lives. These are the employees of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, our medical workers, police officers. Everyone who works on the scene after the hits. Everyone who rescues people from under the rubble, stops fires, and saves the injured. Thank you all!
I would like to mention some of them in particular... Dnipro: Denys Mikheyev, Artem Serha, Dmytro Nikolayenko – these guys are from the State Emergency Service. Vitaliy Arkhypov – an emergency doctor in the Dnipro region, Yevhen Holitsyn – an emergency feldsher. I would also like to mention the police officers: Oleksiy Bondarenko and Vitaliy Andriyanov. Thank you! Karyna Kolisnychenko – a dog handler from the Pavlohrad search and rescue unit. Thank you for every life saved.
Odesa, SES: Yuriy Sukhorukov, Vitaliy Telehus and Artem Kopechynskyi. Thank you, guys!
Chernihiv: Artem Lysenko – a firefighter, Vadym Avramenko and Maksym Zhylko – also employees of the SES in the region, as well as police officers Andriy Vovk and Bohdan Tkachuk. Thank you! I am also grateful to Natalia Nosenok, a nurse who really cares about people and helps them.
I am grateful to everyone who cares about Ukrainians, about life in our country, about their city, their community, about our entire country! And I am especially thankful to each of our warriors. To all those who destroy the Russian occupier, who hold the frontline and thus preserve Ukraine on the world map. We are doing everything to ensure that our warriors have as many opportunities as possible so that this war ends as soon as possible on our terms, Ukrainian terms.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy4KyoB6dNo&t=1s
IBTZ! Time to clean this puke POS off of Free Republic!!
Russian forces have lost 950 more soldiers, 16 tanks and 41 artillery systems over the past 24 hours.
Ukrainska Pravda
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/21/7452216/
SOURCE:
General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
DETAILS:
The total combat losses of the Russian forces between 24 February 2022 and 21 April 2024 are estimated to be as follows [figures in parentheses represent the latest losses – ed.]:
• 459,530 (+950) military personnel;
• 7,229 (+16) tanks;
• 13,896 (+23) armored combat vehicles;
• 11,719 (+41) artillery systems;
• 1,046 (+0) multiple-launch rocket systems;
• 767 (+4) air defense systems;
• 348 (+0) fixed-wing aircraft;
• 325 (+0) helicopters;
• 9,379 (+38) strategic and tactical UAVs;
• 2,115 (+6) cruise missiles;
• 26 (+0) ships and boats;
• 1 (+0) submarines;
• 15,785 (+68) vehicles and tankers;
• 1,926 (+8) special vehicles and other equipment.
This is typical of war economies.
The highest rate of GDP growth Germany ever saw was IIRC, in 1943-44, 11%
This was when its cities were being flattened, food rationing was in effect, and civil investment had flat-lined. But they were making lots of tanks, aicraft and ammo.
The same happened in the US (other than cities being destroyed) - GDP growth was 18.9% in 1942.
You actually believe The Clown Joe Blogs!
You're a no-load.
Amen to that.
YouCrayne is just as Corrupt as Ruzzia.
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“Pray for God ‘s intervention to stop Putin’s invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸... How stupid can one person be?”
Yes, I believe in prayer.
Each of us have freedom of thought and of expression.
I am not here to dictate and impose my point of view on others. Let us respect that we each share mutual freedom of thought and of expression regardless of our differing viewpoints.
I guess the “Z Man” thinks he has the Senate bought & paid for??
Exactly. This provides nothing but kickbacks and more cannon fodder. Eventually instead of money it will be….. if we dont get US boots on the ground (insert scary threat about Russia taking over the world here). Folks who say no to that will also be called brainwashed by Russian propaganda.
Not really.
President Zelenskyy trusts the U.S.
“Why care about Ukraine and the Budapest Memorandum”
Brookings
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-care-about-ukraine-and-the-budapest-memorandum/
In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, the United States, Russia, and Britain committed “to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine” and “to refrain from the threat or use of force” against the country.
Those assurances played a key role in persuading the Ukrainian government in Kyiv to give up what amounted to the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal, consisting of some 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads. Extending the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Assurances for Ukraine
Before agreeing to give up this nuclear arsenal, Kyiv sought three assurances:
1st- it wanted compensation for the value of the highly-enriched uranium in the nuclear warheads, which could be blended down for use as fuel for nuclear reactors. Russia agreed to provide that.
2nd- eliminating ICBMs, ICBM silos, and bombers did not come cheaply. With its economy rapidly contracting, the Ukrainian government could not afford the costs. The United States agreed to cover those costs with Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction assistance.
3rd- Ukraine wanted guarantees or assurances of its security once it got rid of the nuclear arms. The Budapest Memorandum provided security assurances.
Unfortunately, RUSSIA HAS BROKEN virtually all the commitments it undertook in that document. It used military force to seize, and then illegally annex, Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in early 2014. -excerpt
Good grief, when has a commander of an army written such a letter thanking us for stealing more of our tax dollars that should be going to OUR OWN BOARDER and country. This man is sick, as is all of our tax dollars that is being thrown to some war that has been has going on now for three stinking years. It all makes me sick.
ZEEPER FOLLIES PINGLIST!(((PING!)))
If $60 Billion for the Ukies does not win the War for YouCraynee’s
Send in 10,000 French Surrender Monkey’s
You and others here think because we do not support sending American
Tax Dollars to YouCrayne we are Ruzzia supporters. We are not.
YouCraynee is as Corrupt as Russia.
Agree
Cities and Villages Suffering from Russian Terror.
https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news
Pimp it until the ink is gone.
Good money after bad.
Ukraine is lost.
The only questions are: how soon, and at what cost in lives and treasure.
CIA, Maidan, Obama-Bidens 10%, 2014:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/russia-ukraine-war-kiev-conflict
1949:
USA/NATO was/is a “provocateur” in this sad situation.
Don’t sweat the small stuff.
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