Washington will be Zelensky’s first international destination since the war broke out

First modification: 12/21/2022 – 01:45

On condition of anonymity, two sources in the US Congress, and a person familiar with the diplomatic matter, confirmed President Zelenski’s plans to visit Washington to the AP news agency.

For his part, ” reported that the White House was making preparations for a meeting with President Joe Biden.

If the trip goes ahead, Zelensky’s visit would include an address to Congress on Capitol Hill and a meeting with President Joe Biden.

Earlier this Tuesday, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, anticipated that a “session with a special focus on democracy” would be held on Wednesday night.

Pelosi urged lawmakers to be “physically present,” something that caused controversy with lawmakers who had already left the US capital for the Christmas break.

“We are wrapping up a very special session of the 117th Congress with legislation that makes progress for the American people and supports our democracy,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to her colleagues. “I hope you will be there for a very special spotlight on democracy on Wednesday night.”

Joe Biden and the Western coalition supporting Ukraine

Despite harsh criticism of his decision, President Joe Biden has made support for Ukraine one of his flags of his administration abroad. His role among Western powers helping Ukraine has been crucial, and he has spared no investment to help the country’s defenses under attack.

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One of his most recent investments was known on November 23, when Washington granted $400 million to kyiv, totaling $19.7 billion in all its aid and that they continue to bring criticism from their detractors for the management of resources.

The Ukrainian president’s visit brings up investment in the Eastern European country once again, as US lawmakers prepare to vote on a year-end spending package that includes about $45 billion in emergency assistance for Ukraine. .

A joint action to which Biden intends to add the sending of Patriot ground-air defense systems to help Zelenski’s troops.

If the investment is approved, it would be the largest outlay from Washington to kyiv so far, surpassing even the emergency request of 37,000 million dollars made by the Democratic president.

Biden and Zelenski, a relationship that was about to fracture

The million-dollar investments sponsored by Biden could have stopped in the middle of a call between the two leaders, as reported exclusively by the American media ‘NBC News’, the US president lost his temper when his Ukrainian counterpart listed everything he wasn’t getting and didn’t focus on the $1 billion he was being told on the call.

At that moment, Biden lost his temper and raised his voice, according to this outlet’s report: “The American people are being quite generous, my Administration and the US Army are working hard to help Ukraine,” he said. the mandatary.

The disagreement between Biden and Zelenski in June was not the only one. At the beginning of October, US intelligence agents reported that their investigations indicated that part of the Ukrainian government was behind the murder of Daria Dugina, the daughter of Russian ultranationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin.

The death of the woman, after the explosion of a car bomb on the outskirts of Moscow, was another of the reasons that was added to the list to justify the intensification of the siege in Ukraine.

Since the attack was known and, despite the fact that a Russian group called the National Republican Army claimed responsibility for the attack, Russia accused Ukraine of Dugina’s death.

kyiv always denied the accusations, but the conclusions of the US agents partly distanced themselves from Ukraine; However, this has also not stopped US aid to Ukraine from continuing to flow.

With AP and local media