- The US is sending $200 million more in military aid to Ukraine, according to President Joe Biden, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Washington.
- Ammunition for anti-armor, high-mobility artillery rocket systems, high-speed anti-radiation missiles, artillery rounds, demolition munitions, four million rounds of small-arms ammunition, generators, and other equipment and spare parts are among the gear that is being shipped to Ukraine.
- More than $50 billion in funding for Ukraine is part of the $110 billion aid package that Biden has suggested. But before any help to Ukraine is approved, Republicans and some Democrats in Congress are demanding policy reforms to lessen the influx of illegal immigrants flooding the southern border. This is why the package is stuck.
- Biden denounced this idea and attempted to interpret Republican resistance to his plan as endorsing Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- Zelenskyy stated during the press conference that Russia has “failed thus far in wiping Ukraine from the map” and that he is aware that Ukraine needs to show that it can win on the battlefield.
- While the discussions with congressional Republicans were constructive, he added that words and deeds needed to be kept apart. In response, Zelenskyy labeled the idea that Ukraine would cede land in an agreement to end the war as “insane.” Sen.
- Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said that the Senate negotiators made significant headway in their efforts to go ahead with the aid package that Biden has suggested.
Source:
Western Journal