Ukraine war briefing: Fraught path through US Congress for aid as Russia makes gains

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White House officials have said they are taking a wait-and-see approach until the House speaker, Mike Johnson, releases. “It does appear at first blush, that the speaker’s proposal will, in fact, help us get aid to Ukraine, aid to Israel and needed resources to the Indo-Pacific for a wide range of contingencies there,” said John Kirby, Joe Biden’s national security spokesman. “But we’re waiting to get a little bit more detail before we say one way or the other.

, particularly air defence and artillery, that only the US can provide rapidly and at scale. Lack of air defence has exposed Ukrainian frontline units to Russian aircraft that are now. Ukrainian artillery shortages are letting the Russians use armoured columns without suffering prohibitive losses for the first time since 2022.”buy 500,000 artillery shells for Ukraine

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