After months of blockage, elected representatives of the House of Representatives voted on Saturday for the highly anticipated aid package of 61 billion euros for Ukraine.
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“I thank everyone who supported our help”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared on X on Saturday April 20, after the vote by the American House of Representatives for aid of 61 billion dollars for his country. The adopted text “will save thousands and thousands of lives”And “keeps the story on track”, continued the head of state. Ugly “will be felt by our soldiers on the front line, as well as by our towns and villages suffering from Russian terror”he insisted later during his daily speech.
Today, we received the awaited decision on the US aid package that we long fought for. And a very significant one. Our warriors on the front lines, as well as our cities and villages suffering from Russian terror, will feel it.
The US House of Representatives voted on it… pic.twitter.com/G6z3PxsOMg
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) April 20, 2024
His Prime Minister, Denys Chmygal, greeted him “solidarity” of American elected officials, while the American Senate has yet to decide on the text. Voted after several months of blockages, this aid became “vital” for the Ukrainian army, by Volodymyr Zelensky’s own admission, both on the ground, Ukraine is facing ammunition shortages and is unable to protect all of its cities and its energy infrastructure, regularly targeted by Russian forces.
The Kremlin quickly denounced this vote, a decision “expected and predictable” to his eyes. Ugly “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, Dmitri Peskov, quoted by the state press 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 cannot “in no way influence” about the situation on the front, where Russia is on the offensive.