NATO may provide Ukraine with over $3 billion from Afghan Fund – media reports

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NATO may provide Ukraine with over $3 billion from Afghan Fund – media reportsNATO has assured Ukraine that they will support Kyiv as long as necessary (Photo:Defence Imagery/Flickr)NATO countries are considering using leftover funds from a pot of money previously used to back the Afghan security forces to provide support to Ukraine in the coming weeks, U.S. political news outlet Politico reported on Dec. 7.Politico, referring to five Western officials familiar with the matter, said the money, known as the Afghan National Army Trust Fund, had been intended for use in equipping and training troops.Kyiv has asked NATO nations to consider reallocating some of the $3.4 billion to help support their efforts to fight Russia, two of the Western officials said.The fund has been frozen and the alliance has worked to come up with a mechanism for transferring the money back to individual nations or moving it somewhere else, but it is up to each donor nation to decide how to use the money.NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has repeatedly said the alliance will support Kyiv for as long as necessary."

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