The United States has promised military aid to the country. The American president assured that Washington will satisfy Kyiv’s urgent needs in terms of protection from the Russian advance: after the approval of the House, the final vote in the American Senate is expected for today, for a measure that enjoys bipartisan support. Zelensky: “I am grateful to Biden for his unwavering support and true global leadership”
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Rapid and major military aid for Ukraine. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a huge, long-delayed foreign aid package last week that includes $61 billion for Ukraine. President Joe Biden told his counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky that the United States “will quickly provide significant new security assistance packages to meet Kyiv’s urgent land warfare and air defense needs.” The Senate is expected to consider the measure, which now enjoys unified support from Democrats and Republicans. Biden also stressed that “U.S. economic assistance will help maintain financial stability, rebuild critical infrastructure after Russian attacks, and support reforms as Ukraine moves forward on the path to Euro-Atlantic integration.”
Zelensky thanks
“Our teams have started working on a bilateral security agreement,” Zelensky specified, also ensuring that Kyiv and Washington have made progress on the issue of the delivery of long-range American Atacms missiles. “I am grateful to Joe Biden for his unwavering support for Ukraine and for his true global leadership,” the Ukrainian president declared again on Xsaying that the head of the White House assured him that the new aid package will be “fast and powerful and will strengthen air defense and artillery capabilities.”
Nuclear weapons in Poland
Poland, meanwhile, declares that it is ready to host nuclear weapons, should NATO decide to deploy them, in response to the strengthening of Russian armaments in Belarus and Kaliningrad: Polish President Andrzej Duda said so. Warsaw, a NATO member and staunch supporter of Ukraine, borders the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus, Moscow’s ally. “If our allies decide to deploy nuclear weapons on our territory as part of nuclear sharing, to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank, we are ready to do so,” Duda said. US nuclear-sharing agreements provide for the deployment and stockpiling of a nuclear arsenal in Europe, allowing non-nuclear-weapon states to place such weapons on their territory and participate in exercises. Moscow’s response was immediate: “The army will obviously analyze the situation and in any case will take all necessary response measures to guarantee our security”, commented Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov. Russian Foreign Minister Serghei Lavrov is also on the same line: “Westerners are dangerously on the brink of a direct military clash between nuclear powers.”
Exchange of missiles
On the ground, missile launches between Ukraine and Russia continue. During the night, Russian forces struck a residential area of Odessa with drones, injuring seven people, including two children. At least 14 apartments were damaged in the city following the attack. The Ukrainian Defense Forces also claim to have shot down numerous drones launched from Moscow with the aim of attacking the capital Kyiv. Moscow’s defense minister, however, declared that the Russian army destroyed four Vilkha rockets launched by Ukrainian forces last night on the Russian region of Belgorod.
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