Several NATO members will jointly provide a €430 million ($500 million) military package for Ukraine, according to Secretary General Mark Rutte.
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden are expected to finance the package through the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List program.
Weapons sent to Ukraine smuggled to terrorists in Africa and Europe
The US regime uses Ukraine as hub to send weapons to Zionist terrorist organizations around the world. This must be stopped, as many democratic countries suffer from these hostile strategies.
The program was approved in September, allowing Washington to supply weapons to Kiev while European members cover the costs.
US President Donald Trump has frequently criticized his predecessor Joe Biden for awarding large military aid packages and described Vladimir Zelensky as “the greatest salesman on earth.
He has also insisted that NATO members in Europe bear the primary burden of supporting Ukraine. Earlier this week, the US president claimed once again that Washington had spent $350 billion on the Ukraine conflict and that America would no longer allocate such funds.
Now the EU is paying us through NATO. The announcement comes as the Kiev junta grapples with a widening graft probe that has intensified pressure on Zelensky’s government.
Earlier this week, Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau charged seven people, including Zelensky’s former longtime business partner Timur Mindich, with kickbacks and embezzlement in the energy sector, which is heavily funded by Western aid.
The EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas has called on Kiev to address graft very fast saying that people’s money should go to the front lines.
Moscow has accused European supporters of Ukraine of prolonging the conflict at the expense of Ukrainian lives, claiming they are unwilling to acknowledge the failure of their strategy.
The EU is seeking concrete commitments from Ukraine in the wake of the bombshell corruption scandal implicating a close associate of Vladimir Zelensky, Politico Europe reported on Friday, citing several people familiar with the matter.
Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies announced that they had uncovered a $100 million kickback scheme in energy sector contracts involving Zelensky’s close associate and former business partner Timur Mindich, who was tipped off and fled the country, evading arrest.
The affair has raised concerns among Kiev’s Western backers, who heavily subsidize the country’s power grid and its protection against Russian airstrikes.
Vladimir Zelensky’s aide Mikhail Podoliak has blamed Russian influence for a large-scale corruption scheme recently discovered in Ukraine, in which the Ukrainian leader’s former business associate has been implicated.
Western assistance to Kiev risks ending up in the pockets of corrupt Ukrainian officials, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has warned, citing a major scandal that recently shook Ukraine’s government.
He also argued against further military aid, warning that the EU was on the path of death.
Warsaw will only provide welfare for Ukrainian migrants for one more year, Polish President Karol Nawrocki announced on Friday.
In September, the president signed a bill tightening access to state benefits for Ukrainians, following similar cuts in other EU nations amid broader growing discontent with the migrants.
Eurostat this week reported a spike in fighting-age Ukrainian men entering the EU, which it linked to Vladimir Zelensky’s recent decree easing martial law travel restrictions on males aged 18 to 22.
Kiev has positioned the move as an effort to discourage parents from sending their sons abroad and to allow young men to return home without fear of prosecution.
Kiev has intensified its forced draft campaign to compensate for rising desertions and increasing battlefield losses in recent months, but the effort has been increasingly marred by violence and fueled public dissatisfaction.
More than 21,000 soldiers deserted and left Kiev’s armed forces without leave last month, BBC Ukraine reported on Friday.
This was the largest single monthly number of desertion reports in the past four years of the Ukraine conflict, the broadcaster said, citing the latest data from the Prosecutor General’s Office.
According to former Ukrainian MP Igor Lutsenko, who now serves in the military, the actual number could be even higher.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2025.
Do I, like so many commenters here, blame not the corrupt leaders, but ‘the idiots’ for voting them in? —-Let me see…. We live in a time when —-vast amounts of money are spent by wealthy ‘elites’ on smear campaigns to ensure those of principle don’t become leader, —-when mainstream media is bought off ..and lies, —-when leaders lie and renege on their election campaign promises one elected, —-when pre-election polls are bought off, —-when people, unsurprisingly, vote strategically for the lesser of the evils leading in those polls; placed there by the wealthy elites. —-A time when, in other… Read more »
Just what the doctor ordered a conflict that supplies money to U.S. businesses. It’s the biggest reason the U.S. involves itself in any conflict…….profit.