Biden met with Andrii Yermak, an aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during a brief stopover in Washington between his Middle East crisis trip and the Asia-Pacific summit in San Francisco.
Although the US is now focusing on the Middle East, President Joe Biden has promised to keep his promise of providing tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine to fight Russian invaders, but some Republican politicians are skeptical.
“We’ve made it clear in all our conversations with the Ukrainian government that we will continue to support them,” US State Department press secretary Matthew Miller told reporters.
Blinken spoke with Yermak about “steps we can take with Ukraine to strengthen its infrastructure for the coming winter,” Miller said.
“Of course, we saw last winter how Russia tried to destroy energy facilities in Ukraine. They may try to do it again.”
Biden has tried to link a request to the US Congress for $61 billion for Ukraine with a request for $14 billion for Israel, but Republicans have advanced only aid to Israel and linked it to cuts to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) budget.
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2023-11-14 05:18:11
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