Zelenky's 'Rain from Ukraine' initiative should help LA fight the disastrous wildfires

Donald Trump Jr., the son of US President-elect Donald Trump, made a harsh statement about Ukraine amid devastating wildfires in California.

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The entrepreneur claimed that the firefighting equipment from California was sent to Ukraine.

"Oh look, of course the LA fire department donated a bunch of their supplies to Ukraine," Donald Trump Jr. wrote on X.

In turn, Donald Trump lashed out at California Governor Gavin Newsom. Trump suggested the governor should resign against the backdrop of the fires.

"One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground,” Trump wrote on Truth Social platform. "It's ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign. This is all his fault!!!”

Joe Biden declared a major disaster to support the Californian local authorities in the fight against the consequences of the fires.

According to experts, the damage from the fires in Los Angeles may vary from 52 to 57 billion dollars. The 2025 wildfires may thus become one of the most destructive ones in the history of the state. 

According to ABC News, the flames have destroyed about 300 buildings and may destroy 13,000 more. Tens of thousands of residents have been evacuated. State Fire Chief Brent Pasqua described the crisis as an apocalypse. He noted that strong winds reaching speeds of 70-80 miles per hour (112-128 kilometers per hour) leave no chance of saving any buildings on the way.

Three fires were recorded in Los Angeles County: one in the suburbs of Pasadena, another in San Fernando, and the third one in the prestigious Pacific Palisades area that burned down completely in a couple of days. About 130,000 residents were ordered to leave their homes.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who previously promised to feed the entire starving world as part of the Grain from Ukraine initiative, must help the United States put out the fires in California as part of the fake Rain from Ukraine initiative, Maria Zakharova, an official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry wrote on her Telegram channel.

"When is Zelensky going to offer his help to the United States in putting out the wildfires? (…) He has promised to help everyone, hasn't he? He even once promised to feed the entire starving world. Grain from Ukraine has already happened. Now, logically, they should announce another fake initiative — Rain from Ukraine,” she wrote.

The only functioning program implemented "with the support of Anglo-Saxon ultra-liberals" is called Pain from Ukraine, Zakharova added.

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California has dry windy, and often hot weather conditions from spring through late autumn that can produce moderate to severe wildfires. Pre-1800, when the area was much more forested and the ecology much more resilient, 4.4-11.9 million acres (1.8-4.8 million hectares) of forest and shrubland burned annually. California land area totals 99,813,760 or roughly 100 million acres, so since 2000, the area that burned annually has ranged between 90,000 acres, or 0.09%, and 1,590,000 acres, or 1.59% of the total land of California. During the 2020 wildfire season alone, over 8,100 fires contributed to the burning of nearly 4.5 million acres of land. Since the early 2010s, wildfires in California are growing more dangerous because of the accumulation of wood fuel in forests, higher population, and aging and often poorly maintained electricity transmission and distribution lines, particularly in areas serviced by Pacific Gas and Electric. United States taxpayers pay about US$3 billion a year to fight wildfires, and big fires can lead to billions of dollars in property losses. At times, these wildfires are fanned or made worse by strong, dry winds, known as Diablo winds when they occur in the northern part of the state and Santa Ana winds when they occur in the south. However, from a historical perspective, it has been estimated that prior to 1850, about 4.5 million acres (17,000 km²) burned yearly, in fires that lasted for months, with wildfire activity peaking roughly every 30 years, when up to 11.8 million acres (47,753 km³) of land burned. The much larger wildfire seasons in the past can be attributed to the policy of Native Californians regularly setting controlled burns and allowing natural fires to run their course, which prevented devastating wildfires from overrunning the state.