The bill on granting a new aid package to Ukraine has not been voted on in the US Senate. The meeting was broadcast on the website of the upper house of the US legislature.
The document envisaged the allocation of additional budget funds in the amount of $106bn for assistance to Taiwan, Israel and Ukraine. This included $61bn for assistance to Kiev. The issue of starting discussion of the bill was put to a vote. Senators would start its consideration if the initiative received the support of 60 lawmakers. However, 49 members of the upper house of Congress were in favour of the discussion, 51 were against it.
Republican leaders in the Senate, ahead of a key procedural vote, urged their fellow lawmakers to block a bill to provide Ukraine with $61bn in military aid, as the package does not include immigration and asylum reforms.
As a result, the document on providing aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan did not pass the procedural vote.
We shall remind you that earlier the coordinator of the National Security Council on strategic communications of the USA John Kirby said that Washington would not be able to endlessly provide assistance to the Kiev regime. Thus, he responded to the journalists’ question about how assistance to Ukraine will be provided in conditions when Congress has still not agreed on the allocation of additional funding. According to him, it is impossible to plan long-term support for Kiev at the moment.