«We will carry on standing shoulder to shoulder with our friends in Ukraine,» Grant Shapps, the United Kingdom’s secretary of defense, said on Sunday.
Grant Shapps, the United Kingdom’s secretary of defense, vowed on Sunday that the U.K. will continue supporting Ukraine’s fight against Russia no matter how the 2024 presidential election in the United States shakes out.
Ukraine remains locked in a heated conflict with Russia, over a year-and-a-half since Moscow launched its invasion, citing alleged persecution of ethnic Russians in Ukraine and falsely claiming that its government was run by neo-Nazis. Over the course of the conflict, the U.S. has provided nearly $77 billion in aid, roughly $46 billion of which has specifically been military aid, according to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
This support for Ukraine has received heated pushback from Republican lawmakers in the U.S., most of whom have said that the money should be spent domestically, and some of whom have gone as far as to argue against Ukraine’s cause.
