The US Senate should quickly approve bills appropriating aid to Ukraine so that Washington can send it to Kyiv. American President Joe Biden announced this on April 20 in his statement.
“I urge the Senate to quickly send this package [законопроектов] to my desk so that I can sign it so that we can immediately send weapons and equipment to Ukraine to meet their immediate needs on the battlefield,” the document says.
Biden also thanked Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the bipartisan coalition of House lawmakers for the vote.
Earlier that day, the US House of Representatives passed a bill on additional aid to Ukraine for almost $61 billion, the vote passed by 311 votes in favor and 12 against. The nearly $14 billion included in the bill will help Ukraine purchase advanced weapons systems and other defense equipment, the report notes.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the allocation of US military assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan will aggravate the global crisis. According to her, financing Kyiv is sponsoring terrorism.
Prior to this, on April 17, the US House of Representatives published a bill to allocate $61 billion to help Ukraine, $26 billion to Israel and $8.12 billion to contain China in the Indo-Pacific region, including assistance to Taiwan. Biden has expressed his readiness to sign these bills if they are approved by Congress.
Western countries increased military and financial support for Ukraine with the start of the Russian special operation to protect Donbass, which Russia announced on February 24, 2022. The decision to hold it was made by the President of the Russian Federation against the backdrop of an aggravation of the situation in the region due to the aggression of Ukrainian troops. However, recently in the West there have been increasingly frequent statements about the need to reduce aid to Kyiv.
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