US House of Representatives Passes Bill for Ukraine Aid Package: Zelensky Thanks US, NATO Secretary General Responds

The result of the final vote was 311 for, 112 against.

The four-billion package also includes money for Israel, security support for Taiwan and allies in the Indo-Pacific region, and measures that include sanctions, threats ban the Chinese social media app “TikTok” and possible transfer of seized Russian assets to Ukraine.

Out of the total amount – 95 billion US dollars – provided by this package, 61 billion US dollars are expected to be given to Ukraine.

The previously published bill expects that, from the package of less than 61 billion dollars, about 23 billion will be directed to the installation of US military arsenals, that about 14 billion dollars is intended for weapons to buy for Kyiv, and it is planned 11 billion dollars. be directed to US military operations in the region.

After the House approves the bills, they are sent to the Senate as one package. Senators have promised not to delay in supporting the bills and President Joe Biden has also promised to sign them urgently.

The support in the lower house of Congress clears the biggest obstacle to Biden’s request for financial aid to Ukraine, which the president first raised in October, when Ukraine’s military stockpile began running out.

Zelensky: The decision of the US House of Representatives will save thousands of lives

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi welcomed the decision by the US House of Representatives on social media, writing “The important US aid bill passed by the House of Representatives today will prevent ‘ war from expanding, it will save thousands and thousands of lives, and it will help both of our countries become stronger.” Zelensky thanked the United States.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also wrote on the “X” platform that he welcomes “that the US House of Representatives has approved a major new aid package for Ukraine.” making us safer in Europe and North America”.

Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs praised it as “a great day for the free world, a great day for Ukraine. I welcome the decision of the US House of Representatives on a significant new aid package for Ukraine. Euro-Atlantic region.

Other Western leaders expressed the same value, but the Kremlin said such US aid would “kill even more Ukrainians.” “

CONTEXT:

The United States has long supported Ukraine in its war against Russia, but the Republican group of the House of Representatives has more determined members to oppose the amount of aid given to Ukraine.

It was the support of the most critical Republicans who had delayed Washington’s support for Kyiv for months.

In the opinion of the more conservative Republicans, other more important issues are not being taken into account in the United States. Mike Johnson, the speaker of the lower house of Congress, had to seek additional votes for the approval of the bill among the Democratic minority because of criticism from members of his party.

Some Republican congressmen have been reluctant to call Johnson out on this and other relief bills.

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