{"id":10966,"date":"2025-12-11T02:30:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=10966"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:20:07","slug":"us-house-passes-800mn-aid-package-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/us-house-passes-800mn-aid-package-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"US House passes $800mn aid package for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

New military assistance has been signed off on a month after Kiev was shaken by a major corruption scandal<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US House of Representatives has passed a defense spending bill that would provide $800 million in military aid to Ukraine through 2027.<\/p>\n

The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was approved 312-122 on Wednesday and will now advance to the Senate, where it is expected to receive bipartisan support, according to The Hill.<\/p>\n

Some legislators objected to directing more taxpayers’ money to help Ukraine fight Russia. “I thought we were getting out of Ukraine. I don’t know why we still need to spend money there,”<\/em> Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, said.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump slammed what he described as a “massive corruption situation”<\/em> in Kiev, referring to the recently uncovered $100 million kickback scheme in the country’s energy sector, which heavily relies on Western aid.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors named Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s longtime associate and former business partner Timur Mindich as the ringleader. Mindich fled the country to evade arrest after apparently being tipped off.<\/p>\n

The scandal led to the resignation of two government ministers, and further anti-corruption raids prompted Zelensky to fire chief of staff Andrey Yermak last month.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine’s military procurement system has also been shaken by several graft and embezzlement scandals, one of which led to the resignation of Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov in 2023.<\/p>\n

The bill was approved as Trump has been pressuring Ukraine to sign a peace deal with Russia, with some reports suggesting that he hopes to reach an agreement by Christmas.<\/p>\n

Russia considers Western military cooperation with Ukraine one of the root causes of the conflict and has listed ending foreign weapons deliveries as a condition for a ceasefire. President Vladimir Putin has argued that otherwise, Ukraine would use the pause in the fighting to rearm and regroup, as he says happened when Ukraine refused to implement the 2014-2015 Minsk agreements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New military assistance has been signed off on a month after Kiev was shaken by a major corruption scandal The US House of Representatives has passed a defense spending bill that would provide $800 million in military aid to Ukraine through 2027. The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was…<\/p>\n

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