Ukraine aid packages should enable a 'turnaround on the battlefield' by year's end | Lesia Vasylenko

“We have had many countries pledge significant sums of money for military aid… but we are yet to see fighter jets in the sky”.
Ukrainian MP says aid from the US and UK should enable a “turnaround” on the battlefield “by the end of the year” says Lesia Vasylenko, Ukrainian MP.
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[@davidjones-wt2qq]

Same story,different day

[@thinkerly1]

The story: Putin invades neighbring country, breaking two treaties and the UN charter, on the basis of a lie, "self defense".

[@danastanton7819]

It seems like the world has forgotten ukraine and you don't see any protests against Russia. It's hard to motivate more men to sign up when they don't have bullets and guns. It's like going to your death. I do hope the military equipment arrives in time.

[@samsungtap4183]

It's hard to motivate people to fight for JP Morgan, Chase Manhattan, Vanguard, Monsanto, Blackrock etc.

[@olenasvitla5965]

Thank you for support! ❤

[@olenasvitla5965]

Thank you for support and understanding what is going on ❤

[@eganc1976]

🇷🇺 🤖 working overtime in the comments

[@constantinvaldor3742]

​@@eganc1976people still say that 🤣 that's so two years ago

[@michaelmanningly8984]

The unbridled enthusiasm & vibrancy in this interviewers voice is astounding ! Is he even alive ?

[@lg2058]

Sounds like staying neutral was a far smarter idea to agree to at the Turkey 2022 negotiations, than giving in to US assurances of "unwavering" support and continue fighting.

[@JaneSoole]

When?

[@bubbajim2863]

*100 BILLION IN AID CAN'T PURCHASE WEAPONS THAT DON'T EXIST...LOLOL!!!*

[@niblet112]

It makes brand new weapons for 🇺🇸 or 🇬🇧 the billions creates new weapons, whilst the old ones gets sent to 🇺🇦

[@brinjoness3386]

You think the USA has less than a 100 billion in ammunition? They spend that on training rounds in 2 or 3 years.

[@Thichaou]

And I'm the next in line for the throne of Great Britainistan!😂🤣🤣🤣

[@wenterinfaer1656]

This time, definitely, everything will change.

[@johnadam2885]

Yes, things will change - Russia will push forward.

[@SaultoPaul]

This WAR is a GRIFT !!!!

[@livingtribunal4110]

Meanwhile, back in the world of factual reality.. *Ukraine's commander-in-chief has said the situation on the frontline has worsened in the face of multiple Russian attacks.* Oleksandr Syrskyi said Ukrainian forces had withdrawn from positions in the eastern Donetsk region. *_#quellesurprise_*

[@niblet112]

People there are trying to swim to 🇲🇩 fleeing from the front line.

[@braxxian]

TR doesn’t do real world. TR does propaganda.

[@huntsteven5025]

Lies

[@insanebe1]

siege of Kharkiv is likely in the coming months as the frontline in Donetsk collapses at a rapid pace

[@mrbigolnuts3041]

Not enough Russian troops to seige, need at least 300,000 new troops

[@user-ui6kv2np8i]

Some battles which UAF is winning??? Which alternate universe are these battles taking place in? because in this world they've been losing ground EVERY day for the last 6 months.

[@lw1zfog]

virtual on line reality

[@diegoflores9237]

Ukraine is winning on social media and youtube

[@diegoflores9237]

Ukraine is winning on social media and youtube

[@_alienblood]

Kiev in 3 days Ukraine in 2 weeks 😂

[@diegoflores9237]

Ukraine is winning on social media only 🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣

[@leet3207]

This article will age badly like last years counter attack articles thats said it would smash through Russian defence. At some point TR will have to face reality

[@kitol9825]

When the aid come from USA the f-16 where are they

[@glintongordon6811]

There will be no turn around. Ukraine doesn't have what it takes

[@user-ui6kv2np8i]

they never did, they've only got this far because of around half a trillion dollars spent by the west over the last 10 years

[@diegoflores9237]

I laughed so hard when I read the video's title

[@martinattwood7801]

​@@diegoflores9237people dying isnt funny . You obviously never been in any army have you .

[@_alienblood]

Ridiculous statement ukraine are more than capable of winning they have shown there metal

[@olenasvitla5965]

@@martinattwood7801 it is just a ruzzian troll, they like violence

[@martinattwood7801]

Well i heard the aid package will just stop Ukraine falling this year . Thats about it .

[@s0ycapitan]

That's all they are bothered about. They are more worried about Trump than Putin.

[@niblet112]

Aid package is just old tech. The billions actually build new tech for 🇺🇸

[@dannylojkovic5205]

The point is apparently to give Ukraine enough to hold off an offensive and defend themselves. Assuming Biden gets re-elected in 2024, then there will likely be another mass funding for Ukraine. From other reports I’ve seen, the CIA and Biden are worried about just telling Ukraine to attack, potentially take lines, then trump is elected, cuts off support, and then Ukraine loses its advantages and virtually collapses. Ukraine will only maintain its independence so long as the U.S. supports Ukraine, which is actually a horrifying thought

[@s0ycapitan]

Steiner's aid package.

[@rorymackay7712]

PUTRID PUTRID PUTRID, there's been a leak, has piles too !!!! What else, what else is he not doing in the back country ??

[@jefferyyounce5372]

By years end it will be another $$$$ billion, then repeat for the next 20 years! Watch and see.

[@brinjoness3386]

Why are you spamming the same comment. Silly bot needs to mix it up. No potatoes for you

[@williamthompson4389]

Putin’s still there! How long will it take?

[@mikeincalifornia]

Russia isn't like the UK. Russia is a democracy with regularly scheduled elections. They don't hold their elections whenever the British dictator decides it's convenient for him to have them. They don't allow a small group of wealthy elitists to select their leaders behind closed doors, as they do in the UK, but allow everyone in the country to vote for them in free elections. They have a written constitution, one which clearly spells out how and when the president is elected, how they would be replaced if something happens to him, and so on. President Putin was just re-elected to another six year term. So he'll be in office until 2030. When he goes he will most likely be replaced by someone with the same policies, because most Russians agree with what Putin is doing.

[@richardbayer5702]

I'm sure things will turn around (Ukraine will have the ammo), but I hope it's sooner than later. This is the worst period so far in the war. There ARE significant advances by the occupiers and it's all over the eastern front. Ukraine doesn't have much time. The clock is ticking and the occupiers are advancing. The advances are NOT isolated. Ukraine is in full reverse.

[@braxxian]

The war is already lost Richard. Don’t listen to TR, they just tell the delusional what they want to hear.

[@jefferyyounce5372]

And by years end, another $$$$ billion, then every year for 10-20 years. WAtch and see!

[@brinjoness3386]

​@@jefferyyounce5372you think russians can continue to fund a war for 10 years. I don't

[@Withnail1969]

Oh sure, Ukraine will totally start winning.

[@jouniosmala9921]

​@@jefferyyounce5372 The alternative is to actually spend 3 times as much for soldier salaries that send them fight in Russia's next target with same weapons people didn't want to send to Ukraine. But then again, those countries sent troops in part of coalition when USA asked during war on terror because having mutual defensive treaty with USA and are spending NATO recommended amounts on defense and are supporting Ukraine with way higher percentage of GDP than USA.

[@legendre007]

I hope it does indeed result in Ukraine’s ability to drive Putin out.

[@helenpauls1496]

Here, here and sooner rather than later.

[@Infopirates]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@poornalingam6261]

Lol

[@lw1zfog]

hopium chuffers unite !

[@diegoflores9237]

You're going to be disappointed

[@farles3486]

И да привысь фпс до 150-160 так лучше видео топ

[@slayzzee9162]

Keep on dreaming😅😅😅

[@trevorsutherland5263]

AFU wont last another month

[@brinjoness3386]

I bet you 1000 of any currency Ukraine will still be fighting in 3 months

[@lw1zfog]

endless servings of risible copium from ‘tHE TiMEs’ 🥴🤦🏽‍♂️🤡

[@dpelpal]

Like when putin screamed "Kyiv in THREE DAYS!". Russian military is now nothing more than a joke worldwide. They've lost half the Ukrainian land they held in 2022...and tiny Ukraine didn't even have an army in 2020.

[@niblet112]

@@dpelpalhe never screamed that ever. Only time that was ever mentioned was back in 2014 before the west got involved. Even then he said 3 weeks. And n4t0 had been training the Ukrainians for over 10 years!!!!! Why don’t you research anything before commenting? You just look silly

[@namur-iq6ih]

“The manpower situation is the growing problem,” said Rob Lee, a former U.S. Marine now at the Foreign Policy Research Institute who has closely followed the Ukraine conflict. “And if that’s not fixed, then this aid package is not going to solve all Ukraine’s issues.” They’ve got to mobilize more forces and find a way to inspire more Ukrainian men to come to the front lines. The mobilization effort has been hampered in part by concerns over the open-ended timeline of a combat tour, frustrations with low pay and concerns that Ukraine’s government will not properly care for the families of those killed or wounded, the lawmaker said. “We see so many deaths and so many wounded,” the lawmaker said. “If they go, [troops] want to know how long they will be there.”

[@boink800]

This botski also claimed that all of the Donetsk would be taken by April 2023. Did that happen, botski? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

[@boink800]

So far, Russia has advanced 14 km in two years in the Donetsk. It's another 60 km to the Oblast boundary. That means it will take Russia another nine years to take all of the Donetsk. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

[@Infopirates]

There were 160000 Russian troops in Ukraine in 2022/2023. It's 600000 now😁​@@boink800

[@16252]

If you think that Russia doesn't have a manpower / widows problem, give @namur-iq6ih's comment a like.

[@boink800]

@@16252 Russia has one big problem: too much incompetence. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

[@Gayzenon]

❤Ukrainians ❤

[@livingtribunal4110]

Ukraine 'aid' packages that won't do fck-all to actually help the AFU cos of severe manpower shortages

[@huangsteven8111]

It won't be that long ！

[@diegoflores9237]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@guff9567]

Yeah, yeah. The $$$ will just stay stuck in Swiss bank accounts

[@boink800]

How does one deposit weapons into Swiss bank accounts? Please tell us, botski.

[@niblet112]

@@boink800the money builds new weapons for 🇺🇸 whilst the old stuff goes to 🇺🇦. Don’t tell me you still think the MIC cares about 🇺🇦???? 😂

[@DacianRider]

NATO needs to be more aggressive with Orcia.

[@zoranilic9450]

Go to help

[@DacianRider]

@@zoranilic9450 after you.

[@heikechilds2816]

While I'm glad Britain offered 620 million in funding I think it worthwhile to note the US conttributes 61 billion and Germany 28 billion in funding. Comparing each contries efforts to support the Ukraine that to per capita in spending one can see that Britain is not really keeping up with anyone else.

[@Infopirates]

Zelensky will be the richest man on the planet soon 😁😁😁

[@Rtg5637]

@@Infopirates Not rooting for Ukraine but this is a despicable lie. Zelensky was already a very rich man from legal activity before becoming president in 2019.

[@AbbyNon]

Russian trolls in the comments are indeed very concerned about US help. Well .... if Russia is as strong as Russian trolls say, ..... why do they keep insisting on negotiations (they often talk about Istanbul .... Boris Jhonsons and some other nonsense)?

[@boink800]

Those trolls want to "influence" public opinion by commenting in the KZbin comments section. It's so funny.

[@Infopirates]

You're really naive🤓

[@boink800]

@@Infopirates Poor botski .... everyone knows that Russia can never win.

[@stream2watch]

And if RU is so strong, why pay thirdies to post 24/7?

[@boink800]

@@russellspeed1693 Cringe man the troll is now calling others "trolls". *Cringe*

[@Rtg5637]

First Ukraine must make deep structural reforms in the country, government and military to be much better organized for a survival war. Without that all additional aid will go again to waste like the first $250 billion was.

[@abynor8687]

Russian trolls are so funny ..... .... so the Kremlin, the "least corrupt" place in the world is talking about corruption in other countries? :))))))) Ahahahahaahah Just yesterday the first vice minister of defense was arrested on charges of corruption in Moscow ....... Ahahahahaahah

[@boink800]

Says the "expert" from the Internet Research Agency. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

[@Amradar123]

The first aid kicked russia back to the east and out of the black sea

[@boink800]

@@Amradar123 HIMARS pushed Russia out of Kherson City.

[@Rtg5637]

@@Amradar123 The vast majority of the aid was given after that and for 19 months since Ukraine made no territorial gains wasting the enormous aid they received in a mindless stalemate and artillery duels that depleted the huge munitions stockpiles of Allies.

[@SaultoPaul]

STOP STEALING MY DOLLARS !!!!

[@AndreOosthuizen-yc6si]

Ukr lost the war. Stop prolonging the agony, surrender now!

[@SaultoPaul]

This is a GRIFT !!!!!!

[@SaultoPaul]

STOP THE GRIFT !!!!

[@juventinocasillas3023]

This is cope.

[@mrbigolnuts3041]

NATO must move into Ukraine, there is no way there will be any trunk around otherwise

[@srve1149]

you mad?

[@SaultoPaul]

This WAR is a GRIFT !!!

[@SaultoPaul]

This WAR is a GRIFT !!!

[@SaultoPaul]

This WAR is a GRIFT !!!!