BUCHAREST, Romania — The United States on Tuesday unveiled a plan to rehabilitate Ukraine’s power grid, pledging $53 million to assist Kyiv procure circuit breakers and different {hardware} after a sustained Russian air marketing campaign battered the nation’s infrastructure.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken introduced the plan throughout talks in Bucharest with counterparts from the Group of Seven industrialized nations. The pledge comes as Ukraine grapples with widespread blackouts and freezing temperatures.
“This equipment will be rapidly delivered to Ukraine on an emergency basis to help Ukrainians persevere through the winter,” the State Department mentioned in a statement Tuesday.
“What Russia is trying to do is to systematically dismantle the national energy grid at a moment of peak vulnerability,” mentioned a senior State Department official, talking on the situation of anonymity to preview a plan earlier than a public announcement. “Our desire is to ensure that the Ukrainians have the tools they need to respond as quickly as possible, so [Russian President Vladimir] Putin cannot achieve through these humanitarian targets what he’s failed to achieve on the battlefield.”
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