reversed course and agreed to provide Ukraine with $47 million worth of lethal weapons, which included 210 Javelin anti-tank missiles and 37 launchers.Īccording to Catherine Croft, who served as Ukraine director at the U.S. Yet in 2018, with Donald Trump as president, the U.S. Earlier that year, Trump ordered a freeze on a $400-million package of military assistance to Ukraine that had been approved by Congress. president Donald Trump in New York during the United Nations General Assembly, in September 2019. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, meets with then-U.S. "That being said, it is not clear to me that that would have dissuaded what is happening right now." Simon Miles, an assistant professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and an expert on Russia, agreed that the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations should have done more to build up Ukraine's defensive capabilities. And earlier. I think would have had a better chance of surviving than they are now, right? And then the odds would have been higher that they could have been deterred." "We should have, though, we should have provided lethal weapons. deputy assistant secretary of defence for European and NATO policy. "I think Putin felt that no matter how well armed Ukraine was, that he would be able to roll over Ukraine," said Jim Townsend, a former U.S. "We don't know if that would have deterred" Russian President Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine on Feb.
Yet since the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations have all, to some degree, delayed or balked at sending lethal aid to Ukraine - raising questions about whether a better armed Ukraine could have provided a deterrent to a Russian invasion. security assistance committed over the past year to more than $1 billion. Earlier this week, the United States authorized up to $350 million US for immediate support to Ukraine's defence, which, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, would bring the total U.S.
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