Ukraine has welcomed the long-awaited resumption of military and financial aid from the United Statesvital support that comes at a time when the ammo shortage It is making it give up positions to Russia on the battlefield. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyhas celebrated this aid package by emphasizing that iwill prevent the war from “continuing to expand”, while “will save thousands of lives and will help both nations become stronger.”
The House of Representatives unblocked this Saturday, after months of delay due to the blockade of the hard Republican wing, a Package of 61 billion dollars for kyiv.
“Our warriors on the front, as well as our cities and towns suffering from Russian terror, will feel the effects,” Zelensky said in a recorded message addressed to the population on Saturday night.
[La ayuda de Estados Unidos a Ucrania, Israel y Taiwán les apuntala frente a regímenes totalitarios]
He expressed his gratitude to the president of the US House of Representatives, Michael Johnsonand to all those who contributed to its approval “after a long struggle” and spoke of a solution “that protects life” and that brings closer “a just end” to a war that Russia must lose.
In addition, the Ukrainian president stressed “the crucial importance of American leadership” for maintaining a “rules-based international order” and expressed the hope that the law will soon be approved by the Senate and sent to the president. Joe Biden for your signiture.
Today, we received the long-awaited decision on the US aid package that we long fought for. And a very significant one. Our warriors on the front lines, as well as our cities and villages suffering from Russian terror, will feel it.
The US House of Representatives voted on it… pic.twitter.com/G6z3PxsOMg
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) April 20, 2024
Zelensky expressed confidence that crucial weapons and ammunition would arrive quickly enough amid continued Russian attacks.
Experts believe that, given the acute shortage of artillery and air defense ammunition, the arrival of more weapons in the coming weeks will help limit or slow down Russian advances.
It could also facilitate the mobilization of new recruitswhich according to polls has been largely hampered by uncertainty about the availability of modern weapons, given the delays in allied aid.
In addition to strengthening Ukraine militarily, the package also will help ensure its macroeconomic stabilitywith $7.85 billion in direct financial aid.
Moscow's reaction
Russia's reaction to the approval of the new $61 billion military aid package has not been long in coming. “This will not alter the situation on the battlefield. kyiv's criminal regime will be defeated“wrote Viacheslav Volodin, president of the Duma on his Telegram channel.
Volodin stressed that, “with its decision, the US forces Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian,” which, in his opinion, also It will bury your economy and “deprive you of a future.”
“Biden himself does not hide that the allocated funds will mainly be received by American companies. But the important thing is something else: even the money that reaches kyiv will have to be returned,” he says. For all this, Volodin considers that aid is, in reality, “a leonine debt from which there is no escape.”
For its part, the secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, assured that this 'new and important' aid package for Ukraine will contribute to “making us all safer, both in Europe and North America.”
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, stated that Ukraine “deserves all possible support against Russia” and, after the affirmative vote of the House of Representatives, urged the US Senate to ratify this package “as soon as possible,” because “lives are at stake.” “Transatlantic allies are united in support of freedom and democracy,” Von der Leyen asserted in a post on his X account.
The president of the European Council, Charles Michelstressed that the approval of this aid package “sends a clear message to the Kremlin”and that is that “those who believe in freedom and the Charter of the United Nations will continue to support Ukraine and its people.”
Michel stated in X that this new fund for kyiv is going to be “crucial” for the future of the war and regretted that its approval had been “pending for a long time.”
