In the State of the Union address, US President Joe Biden restated that the United States will not deploy troops to Ukraine after the Russian invasion. He said that the American troops were deployed to Europe not to fight the Russian forces in Ukraine, but to defend the NATO allies if the Russian President Vladimir Putin decides to keep moving west.
To meet that objective, the American ground forces, air squadrons and ship deployments have been mobilized to protect NATO countries including Poland, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, Biden added.
Biden has approved more than 1 billion dollars in direct assistance to Ukraine, which includes military, economic, and humanitarian aid from the United States and its allies.
The United States has given over 1 billion dollars in total, in security assistance to Ukraine over the past year, Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State said in a statement on February 26. The United States is not currently giving Ukraine $1 billion in aid, as stated by President Biden in his speech.
Antony Blinken had authorized the Defense Department to provide $60 million in immediate military assistance to Ukraine in the fall of 2021. In December, Blinken authorized an additional $200 million. After the Russian invasion began, a third aid package of $350 million for the immediate support to Ukraine’s defence was authorized, marking the total security assistance from the United States to Ukraine over the past year to over $1 billion.
