War in Ukraine consumes more than $43 billion of US assets

  The Deputy Secretary of Defense of the United States said that after sending the latest military aid from Washington to Ukraine, the figure for these expenses exceeded $43 billion. According to Sputnik, Kathleen Hicks said at a National Defense Industry Association conference: "In the 18 months since the start of Russia's war against Ukraine, we have sent more than 3.1 million rockets, bombs, mortars and artillery shells to Ukraine, and these are only four categories ammunition sent to Kiev".

The Pentagon spokeswoman continued that the US has also worked with the private sector to give Ukraine access to commercial technology to help it on the battlefield. Vivek Ramaswami, the Republican candidate in the 2024 US presidential election, said that the war in Ukraine is not in the interests of the United States, and if Washington does not intervene and says that it will no longer support Ukraine financially, the war in this country will end now. He added: "Some warlords after Volodymyr Zelensky will come to power in Ukraine with US military equipment worth several hundred billion dollars. Just like what happened after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and we saw where this process took us." Russian officials, some Western experts and the media have described the war in Ukraine as a proxy war between the West and Russia.