Republicans are seriously considering making $12 billion of the $60 billion that the Biden administration wants to send to Ukraine into a loan. Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-S.C.) said he raised the prospect, which was inspired by Trump, with Ukrainian President VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY during his trip to the country on Monday.
While the idea has circulated for weeks in Congress, Ukrainian officials suggest that Kyiv hasn't been kept in the loop as much. And they have questions.
Comment: Ukraine is a foreign country, and the U.S. owes her nothing. Beggars can't be choosers. Ukraine is free to look elsewhere if she does not like it.
"I have not heard any specific proposals for such a strategy being offered to Kyiv," a person close to Zelenskyy's office, granted anonymity to speak candidly, told NatSec Daily this morning. "But Kyiv would definitely need to know the conditions under which Ukraine will not have to pay it back."
Comment: Looks like Russia is finally taken the gloves off. Notice though, the strikes are aimed at crippling military infrastructure, as Ukraine moves most of its armaments by electric train. An though this strikes will impose hardships on the common people, they've been made at the start of the warmer season, as oppose to the dead of a Ukrainian winter.