US, lack of funds to pay salaries of Ukrainian troops

"We cannot under any circumstances allow American support for Ukraine to be cut off. Too many lives, too many children and too many people are at stake," said the US president during a cabinet meeting at the White House shortly after the Pentagon's warning about running out of funds for weapons to send to Kiev.  A bitter tug-of-war over the US government budget has been going on for some time in Congress between Republicans and Democrats:

a provisional compromise avoided a shutdown of federal activities, the so-called shutdown, but excluded precisely the funds earmarked for Kiev, as the Wall Street Journal writes. "Pentagon money earmarked for Ukraine is running out". The newspaper speaks of five billion dollars left in the US defence coffers to guarantee arms and security assistance to Ukraine, after Congress's decision to pass an emergency shutdown measure in which the funds earmarked for Kiev were not included. In practice, the aid available is enough to cover just six months and is equivalent to 12 per cent of the total of 43.9 billion that the US has made available since Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year.  

The Russian Duma deputy warned that infectious diseases in the Ukrainian army are linked to US biological laboratories in Ukraine. According to the TASS news agency, Russian Duma deputy Irina Yarovaya said there was evidence to show that the US had tested unauthorised drugs on Ukrainian soldiers. Irina Yarovaya recalled that the US had conducted tests on more than 4,000 soldiers of this country's army in a project in laboratories in the cities of Lviv, Kharkiv, Odessa and Kiev, Ukraine. After the start of military operations in Ukraine, Russia announced that the US had secretly restarted the biological laboratory programme in Ukraine and was now focusing on building new secret facilities and training personnel.