Bu Suleima Maru and Lateef Adegbite
Aware that Russia, is surrounded by Enemy European countries, including the North American country of the United States, US and the United Kingdom, UK, with nuclear warheads may have encouraged Vladimir Putim, the Russian President to mobilize the country Scientists and Engineers to step up research that could give the country new nuclear warheads to defend itself in the outbreak of WW3.
President Putin may have taken advantage of the ongoing Ukraine war, which is entering its fourth year because of the involvement of the US, UK, France Germany and other NATO, member countries, to expedite plans to produce the nuclear war heads weapons.
The information making he rounds from the rumour mills indicates that between Joe Biden’s administration and the incumbent Donald Trump, the US, government had spent over $350 billion to fund the Ukraine war.
But reports from the country’s Council on Foreign Relations had confirmed that at from the onset of the war in 2022, Former President Biden, who had gotten the approval of the Congress had provided $14 billion to Volodymir Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian Leader to prosecute the war against Russia, with a promise to increase the budgetary allocation in subsequent words.
This may have informed, why the country that could pride itself as having the strongest economy in the world had increased the funding of the Ukraine war to $47 billion, in 2023, after the initial slash $12 billion, same 2023.
President Trump, who was said to have continued from where his predecessor had stopped in funding the Ukraine war , was said to upped the allocation to Ukraine to sustain the war may have cashed in on the Republican majority in the Congress to jerk up the funding of the Ukraine to $61 billion in 2024 as against the $20 billion that was said to have been provided the country this 2025, which is still telling on the soldiers battle -readiness, procurement and local production of weapons.
It would be recalled that Putin had cried out that if the US and European Union, EU Leaders, could stop funding the Ukraine war, and stop further supply weapons to the country, the war would naturally end but nobody took him seriously.
Perhaps, to spread the funding of the Ukraine war to all the NATO, member countries, may have encouraged the US, President, who believes the funding of the Ukraine war was already telling on the country’s economy that he had suggested that the current ‘’NATO Budget for core defense spending which had been 2% of Gross Domestic Product, GDP, over the years but not only members could still pay it, be increased to 5%, amidst murmuring by some aggrieved members of the security Organisation.
The Allies, after intense pressure from Trump, were said to have promised to increase its core spending on defense to 5% by 2023. The initial opposition of the European allies in increasing the NATO, spending on defense, may have pissed Trump off, that he had distanced himself from the European Union, EUm Leaders’ decision to spend the over $300 billion frozen Russian assets to fund the Ukraine war but to treated as aid.
Bar De Wever, Prime Minister of Belgium, may not have been agreement with President Emmanuel of Macron, Frederick Merz, the German Chancellor and Mrk Rutte, Secretary General of the EU, and who also doubles as Secretary General of NATO, to use the Russian frozen assets to fund the Ukraine war.
He was said to have urged his European partners that they should ‘’share the risk of using the billions of US, dollars in frozen Russian assets that are held in his home country to help sustain the Ukraine’s economy and keep its war effort afloat in the coming years.
Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian Leader, who appears desperate as his country is financially handicapped to continue the fight against Russia was said to have prepared the 2026/2027 budget and military needs of Ukraine, estimated to cost $153 bilion, which was said to have been passed to the EU, parliament for approval.
De Wever, the Belgium, Prime Minister may have fragmented the EU, in the recent time and even, NATO, as he had sounded it loud and clear that the Belgium government, under his Leadership,’’ is wary of using the Russian frozen assets’ money, without firm guarantees of repayment from other EU, countries’’, when the bubble burst.
His worry was that as a small country and if Putin decides to hit back on the EU, member nations, by going to the extreme of confiscating all kinds monies of Western Banks in Russia, confiscate the European owned companies, it would hit Belgium most.
Rutte, the EU, Secretary, may General, appears to have tried to play a smart game by describing the decision of the European Leaders as ‘’reparation loan to Ukraine ‘’ which he had put at $165 billon of European money, but the Belgium Prime Minister would not take it.
In spite of President Trump and the Prime Minister of Belgium hardline positions that Russia’s frozen assets of $300 billion for invading Ukraine in 20222, should not be use used fund Ukraine war, Russia may have seen as an opportunity to prepare for WW3, against the US, UK and Europe.
He was said to have his weight behind the Russian scientists and engineers to go beyond the production of the Ureshnik warhead which could destroy cities in Europe within minutes to the production of the high-powered ‘’Burevesnik cruise missile’’, which has an ‘’unlimited range and ability to invade missile defences’’ which was launched last August.
An aggrieved President Trump, who is not happy that the Russia Leader, instead of looking for ways ‘’to end the Ukraine war’’, is busy producing new cruise missiles that could bypass other missile and defence systems, describing it as ‘’inappropriate’’, had resorted imposing more sanctions on the country to force to come to the Negotiating table for peace talks.
Tthe US, Treasury office for Foreign Assets Control, on at the instance of Trump, had imposed sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil companies which, energy experts had said raises ‘’the revenue for its war machine and support its economy’’.
The US energy sanctions on the Russian two biggest oil companies were said to have affected Rosneft Oil Company and Lukoil, which engages in the exploration, production, refining, marketing and distribution of gas in Russia and the internation market.
In imposing the sanctions on the two Russian oil companies, Scott Bresent, US, Treasury Secretary, had lamented that the two Russia oil companies fund the Russian war machine, describing it as Trump’s Administration ‘’first direct interventions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine in 2022’’.
While Zelenskyy, had hailed the US sanctions on the Russian two major oil companies which had targeted the companies oil tankers and the country’s financial sector, expected to curb Moscow war efforts and weaken its source of revenue to stop further production of new cruise missiles of mass destruction, many believes that the sanction’s may have strengthened the country’s economy.
It was not surprising why Zelenskky, had continuously piled up pressure on the EU, Leadership to allow the country use the Russian frozen assets to fund the country’s defence. Security experts believes that Zelenskyy urgently needed the Russia frozen assets to do a good job in producing the country’s ever new long-range cruise missile, the Flamengo, which had been test -run, but could turned out to be a failed project.
Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian Leader, who could hide his feelings had said that though President Trump of the US, had given approval for the country to use long-range missiles to strike deep into Russia, ‘’the missile project had faced both technological difficulties and delays in funding from the EU and US’’.
He had said that ‘’if the European Leaders and Trump, would allow Ukraine to use the Russian frozen assets to fund the Ukraine war the country would not have much of problem, urging the European partners, particular, to do everything within their powers to ensure that the funding of the Ukraine war was resolved’’. The message is very clear, that Russia is at war with Ukraine but fighting the entire Europe, UK and the US. Vintage Putin.
