"The people of Ukraine are sincerely grateful to the U.S. Congress," Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky's office, said on Saturday.
As Volodymyr Zelensky was on the phone with President Joe Biden discussing what weapons and ammunition would be rushed to Ukraine as soon as a $61 billion aid package receives final Senate approval, the Ukrainian president was getting word of Russia’s latest attack.
Russia said on Sunday its forces had advanced towards the town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine and seized control of the settlement of Bohdanivka, as Kyiv said it urgently needed promised U.S. support to fend off a full-scale offensive.
The Senate today overwhelmingly approved a critical procedural move to tee up the final passage of the long-stalled $95.3 billion package of aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Senators are expected to pass the package as early as tonight,
Russia will expand its aerial bombardment of Ukraine, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday, days after billions in new US military aid for Kiev were approved in the US House of Representatives.
Kyiv is pleading for equipment and munitions to stop Russia seizing Chasiv Yar which could pave the way, if it fell, for a major breakthrough in the war