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Biden urged Congress to “immediately” vote on this funding.
“We estimate that President Putin is preparing for a long conflict in Ukraine.”said the director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, in an audience at the Capitol, seat of Congress.
Biden noted that the resources provided by the United States to help Ukraine will run out in ten days.
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“We cannot let our aid distributions stop waiting for a decision from Congress,” said the US president, who regularly expresses his desire to lead the great fight of democracies against authoritarian regimes.
About 9,000 million dollars of these funds will also enable Americans replenish their own weapons stocks.
Traditional ally in the foreign policy of the White House, andCongress already released nearly $14 billion for the Ukraine crisis in mid-March, after listening to its president Volodimir Zelensky compare his country’s conflict with the darkest hours of American history, such as the attack on Pearl Harbor and the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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Two Senate heavyweights, Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Richard Blumenthal, advanced in the fight against Moscow on Tuesday, introducing a resolution urging the US diplomat to put Russia on the US blacklist of “states that support terrorism”.
Four countries today are on this list: Cuba, Iran, Syria and North Korea.
