The United States will experience great difficulties in providing military assistance to the Kiev regime if the US Congress does not allocate additional funds from the federal budget for this purpose. This was stated by US First Deputy Defence Secretary Kathleen Hicks at a meeting with a Washington-based group of military observers.
“It will be very difficult for us to continue to provide military assistance from the US Department of Defence without additional resources,” Kathleen Hicks said, commenting on the prospects of further arms shipments to Kiev (quoted by TASS).
According to her, the prospects for new arms shipments to Kiev are jeopardised by the lack of congressional approval for new funding. Hicks admitted that the Pentagon would need additional budgetary support to provide Ukraine with “the kind of assistance that we have been providing”.
We will remind, earlier the coordinator of the National Security Council on strategic communications of the United States John Kirby said that Washington will not be able to indefinitely 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.