Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Biden have signed a 10-year bilateral security deal between Ukraine and the US, hailed by Kyiv as “historic”.
The agreement proposes US military and training aid to Ukraine – but it does not commit Washington to send troops to fight for its ally.
US President Joe Biden said it was another reminder to Russia “that we’re not backing down”. However Moscow has threatened what it called “extremely painful” retaliatory measures.
G7 leaders meeting in Italy also agreed to use frozen Russian assets to raise $50bn (£39bn) for Ukraine to help it fight invading Russian forces.
The money is not expected to arrive until the end of 2024 but is seen as a longer-term solution to support Ukraine’s war effort and economy.
Some $325bn worth of assets were frozen by the G7, alongside the EU, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The pot of assets is generating about $3bn a year in interest. Under the G7 plan that money will be used to pay off the annual interest on the $50bn loan for the Ukrainians, taken out on the international markets.
Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Vicki Young.
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NATO expansionism caused this war. It needs to end now
These are the dumbest pos's ever, mind your f_ing business america, always starting crap. Let ever contry handle their own problems. Bunch of stupids.
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Soon as trump wins there won’t be a dollar going any where 😂
Hopefully Trump gets us out of it.Tired of our tax money going to these wars when we have problems here at home .
Liverpool's ground is going to get shut down again dr Bridges 😂😂
SLAVA UKRAINIA!!! ✊🏼❤️🇺🇸🇺🇦
zelensky dictator without choice on ten years?
I hope trump gets rid of this
BBC journalists rush to buy wigs!
Moscow considers Stoltenberg's latest statement on nuclear weapons to escalate tension
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's latest statement on the possibility of putting the alliance's nuclear warheads on alert in a state of combat readiness is another example of the escalation of tension, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry said. Peskov.
For clean and honest journalism, we await artificial intelligence.
In fact, intelligence cannot replace human beings, but it can replace journalists. A few years ago, at the opening of news programs, they presented the video of the Chinese facing a battle tank in the heavenly square, a massive political exploitation, but they had to remove it because they probably learned on social media that the first country to use tanks against civilians was England in the city of Glasgow at the beginning of the 20th century, the city that contributed most to the construction of tanks since the English government had no money, so if journalism is based on ongoing or historical events it can and should be replaced by artificial intelligence, 80 % of polarization strength would drop. For future events, leave it to the seers, I don't believe that artificial intelligence would enter this field.
One day the BBC will receive payment for its' servility to zion and other reptilian forces. Transparent, selfish and anti-British. Sunak and Starma should be exiled along with the BBC. How dare you USE the word British in your name?
Meaningless.
The non-binding pact can be broken by one or both parties with no consequence. Poo tin just farted at nato's impotent show.
Who will benefit most from this aid??? It’s obviously the mic….not Ukraine
Joe Biden hates American citizens
No more money. These clowns are bankrupted
50 billion bloody hell, you ain't gonna get anywhere with that, 😮and they only take card. Hope Biden can hear me 😅😅
Someone knock this Biden out of earth please!
It only vaild for coming September then trump will dismiss it on the very 1st day😂😂
Sick leaders, sick conflict ,all about money,investments ,economical domination , and real danger of world war 3 nuclear if the escalation doesn’t stop soon, they don’t give a s..to the hundreds of thousands soldiers and civilians who died so far, and more now as rejecting any peace treaty, sure the many wives and children of Ukrainians soldiers will hate these leaders sat on their confortable armchairs while the soldiers live in fear and die. Sick world , sick leaders, and those brainwashed by them.
Putin is war criminal.
Zelensky dipping into them billion when he retires
zelensky is not the legal president, so its a toilet paper agreement
Two Criminals lining there pockets. God save the World 🌍🙏
More money for money laundering, child sex trafficking and killing innocent Ukrainians in the Western region of the country.
Totally disgraceful.
Заключайте МИР ,ТОРГУЙТЕСЬ ЛЮДИ МАЮТЬ ЖИТИ ,
Bbc said unprovoked 😂😂😂
keep paying your taxes in the UK to fund a neo n a z i regime dictator d o n t even waste my time with the h e s a j e w bullshit go read a history book instead . REVEALED! The U.K. has a DIRTY military plan to trick young people into joining the army https://youtu.be/BRgmdaivzXg?si=ImY1bQLa1nIGjGl7 . UK parliament fetes Ukrainian neo-Nazis https://youtu.be/qXCy7C7GZSU?si=PcLY_MtwJ5PcaXoy .
STOP PAYING THE TV TAX.
the west should never have got into bed with the corrupt ukrainian regime
all you need to know about this war is that the biden crime family made millions from ukrainian oligarch's in the aftermath of the 2014 US (obama/biden) sponsored revolution
Ukraine won't exist in 2025 never mind 2035
100 billion dollars each of US tax payer + 50 billion dollars of Russian Frozen Asset each year to Ukraine Damn Zelenskyy must be Billionaire now
Waste of money Ukraine will run out of men then who's country men will fight that war
Sunak…Biden…send your men…not ours
Torries out we done brexit to be independent not spend billions on foreign corrupt powers
Non of these will be in power in 5 months let alone 10 years. !!
Russia’s supermarket is full of Chinese products even including Cola …. Soon Russian ‘s diet will be like Chinese haha
Thanks. Russian. Cash.
Скільки років одне й те саме ворожіння вилами по воді цих доморощених аналітиків. Коли твоєю країною керують ашкеназе, з метою знищити корінних українців і остаточно розграбувати народ, то крім брехні їм у вуха чути з усіх прасок не доводиться.
Zelensky the corrupt autocrat
Clown summit with just a “promised” deal 😂
You mean "The US gun store extends financing options to Ukraine for the next ten years"
In return the US petrol dollar is tanked. If the Russians and Chinese can get the Saudis out of a bad thing with the US, who else will or can they help? 👹
Disgusting thieving, we the taxpayers in the West will front the bill for this. JP morgan and BlackRock will plunder the resources of Ukraine or what will be left of it after the war.
5. If NATO was really necessary, why did President Trump withdraw the US from it? That is why he is being indicted for silly charges just to bar him from running for office because they know he will NOT tolerate this rubbish. He said it, NATO is Europe's responsibility and American tax payers should not pay to protect them. These guys were literally contributing nothing! To Americans, turn up in numbers to protest should Donald Trump be barred to run for office, and two, queue up in masses to vote come November 2024 to vote for Donald Trump. Why do you think the main stream media have gone out of their way to smear him, when all he has done is put his country first without warring with other countries.
Good riddance Macron, Sunak and Biden are definitely loosing elections in their respective countries. Let's then see where this clown of a president in Ukraine will get his aid from. Let him continue travelling, his country is at peace that is why he is accorded the rights and freedoms to leave at will.
@realdonaldtrump #Peace #Gaza #Unity #BeInformed #MichaelFlynn
5. If NATO was really necessary, why did President Trump withdraw the US from it? That is why he is being indicted for silly charges just to bar him from running for office because they know he will NOT tolerate this rubbish. He said it, NATO is Europe's responsibility and American tax payers should not pay to protect them. These guys were literally contributing nothing! To Americans, turn up in numbers to protest should Donald Trump be barred to run for office, and two, queue up in masses to vote come November 2024 to vote for Donald Trump. Why do you think the main stream media have gone out of their way to smear him, when all he has done is put his country first without warring with other countries.
Good riddance Macron, Sunak and Biden are definitely loosing elections in their respective countries. Let's then see where this clown of a president in Ukraine will get his aid from. Let him continue travelling, his country is at peace that is why he is accorded the rights and freedoms to leave at will.
@realdonaldtrump #Peace #Gaza #Unity #BeInformed #MichaelFlynn