Russia President Volodymyr Zelensky said, ‘Ukraine will lose the war if the United States Congress does not accept military aid to help it resist Russia’s invasion’.
‘It’s important to particularly address the Congress: if the Congress doesn’t help Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the war’, Zelensky said on Sunday during a video meeting of the Ukrainian fund-raising group UNITED24.
He said, ‘If Ukraine loses this war, other countries will be attacked. This is a fact. Zelensky’s warning, among his distinct since the war started more than two years ago, comes as Congress has for several months rejected to pass a package of aid for Ukraine, leaving Kyiv to battle shortages of manpower and ammunition while Russia pounds Ukraine’s cities with missiles and tests for weak spots along the front line.
The US Senate passed a $95.3 billion foreign aid bill with help for Ukraine and Israel in February, but House Speaker Mile Johnson has so far declined to hold a vote on passing the package for Ukraine.
According to the media reports, previously Zelensky said that millions could die in Ukraine’s war with Russia if US lawmakers do not approve the aid package.
In February 2022, when Russia launched its invasion, it thought it would take Kyiv in days and the rest of the country in weeks. In what proved to be a miscalculation for Moscow, Ukraine forced back the initial assault on its capital and, later in 2022, claimed back some of the territories overrun by Russia.
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