Ukrainian president urges Senate to ratify aid package so that it can strengthen frontline with Russia
Voldoymyr Zelenskiy said that he wanted to get ‘tangible assistance to for the soldiers on the frontline as soon as possible’.Voldoymyr Zelenskiy said that he wanted to get ‘tangible assistance to for the soldiers on the frontline as soon as possible’.to pass a long-delayed $61bn military aid package demonstrated that his country would not abandoned by the west in its effort to fight the Russian invasion.
The Senate is expected to come out of recess on Tuesday to hold its first vote on the package – similar to one it had already voted for in February – with the US president, Joe Biden, promising to sign it into law swiftly after it passes Congress.aid, and which was part of a larger aid package with money for Israel and Taiwan, to be debated in the lower chamber.
US officials have signalled that some weapons were in European warehouses, ready to be moved into Ukraine at short notice once Biden decides exactly what to supply in the first round after the overall funding has been approved.
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