Guest Post by Olga Sukharevskaya
Using Kiev to take on Moscow has been a meticulously planned strategy, long in the making.
In this aerial view, A Ukrainian Army tank drives over an infantryman during a training exercise on May 09, 2022 near Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. © Photo by John Moore/Getty Images
Since the beginning of Russia’s military offensive, almost one year ago, Ukraine has received tens of billions of dollars from the West. These funds are directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including civilians in the east of Ukraine. Primarily focused on their own interests, the US and its allies are full aware that the war would have ended long ago, without their largesse.
Billions spent on murder
The process of pumping Ukraine with money and weapons didn’t begin in 2022. It started eight years earlier, in the wake of the Maidan coup in Kiev. According to Transparency International, in the period from 2014 to 2017, the US alone provided Ukraine with $658 million in technical assistance. By March 2022, US military assistance to Ukraine had topped $2 billion.
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