The new aid from the United States has, unsurprisingly, not moved the lines around kyiv and Moscow. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his European Union and NATO allies unanimously welcomed the vote on Saturday in Washington in favor of a $61 billion package in kyiv. The Kremlin, for its part, deplored aid which would lead to the death of “even more Ukrainians”.
It took months and months, often to the great despair of Ukrainian leaders, but Saturday’s vote was the right one in the American House of Representatives, validating a package of military and financial aid to Ukraine. This aid should allow the Ukrainian army to catch its breath against the Russian army, in this high-intensity conflict which has exhausted many of its fighters and damaged the morale of the troops with the surge of Moscow’s forces in recent months.
“Thousands and thousands of lives” saved according to Zelensky
The adopted text “will save thousands and thousands of lives”, welcomed X Volodymyr Zelensky, believing that the text “keeps history on the right path”. “This is very important help which will be felt by our soldiers on the front line, as well as by our towns and villages which are suffering from Russian terror,” he said later during his speech. daily speech. His Prime Minister, Denys Chmygal, praised the “solidarity” of American elected officials, while the text must still be voted on by the Senate.
kyiv’s closest ally, American President Joe Biden quickly welcomed the adoption of “crucial” aid to kyiv, at the “meeting of history”.
Reviews of Moscow
The Kremlin also quickly reacted but this time to denounce the vote of the American Congress, an “expected and predictable” decision in its eyes. The aid “will further enrich the United States of America and ruin Ukraine even more, killing even more Ukrainians because of the Kiev regime,” assured the spokesperson for the Russian presidency, Dmitry Peskov, quoted by the state news agency TASS.
Russian diplomatic spokesperson Maria Zakharova criticized a military package, which also includes aid to Israel and Taiwan, which “will exacerbate global crises”. On Thursday, Dmitri Peskov affirmed that American aid could “in no way influence” the situation on the front, where Russia is on the offensive.
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Following the vote in Washington, reactions quickly poured in from kyiv’s Western allies, particularly within the European Union. “A day of optimism” for Europe, said Berlin through the head of German diplomacy, Annalena Baerbock, after the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, assured her that the West “is sending a clear message to the Kremlin. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, for his part, welcomed aid which “strengthens the security of us all, in Europe and North America”.