The United States will allocate an additional $300 million to Ukraine this year. This was stated by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken during a joint briefing with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba.

“For many years we have invested in the economic development of Ukraine, energy security, infrastructure, civil society, the rule of law. And we will continue to support, including defense security,” Blinken said..

He noted that such support is provided by both parties of the United States..

“This is a signal given by the US Congress that we continue and will support Ukraine in 2022.. And we will allocate an additional $300 million,” Blinken added..

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Russia has been actively building up troops on the border with Ukraine for several months. Against the backdrop of talks about the possibility of a full-scale war, the Russian Federation demands security guarantees from NATO, according to which the Alliance must refuse to join Ukraine and any military activities in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

On January 10-13, three rounds of negotiations were held on Russian claims regarding European security:

negotiations between the Russian and US delegations in Geneva, a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels, and negotiations within the OSCE.

Negotiations were " According to their results, all participants announced disagreements in positions. Russia's demands for the non-expansion of NATO to the east were declared unacceptable, Moscow received a specific refusal to its veiled proposal to divide the world into new "

Read more about what Moscow is seeking and whether the West will make concessions to it, read in the articles by Sergey Korsunsky \?