2024-01-29 03:08:54
Ukraine aid budget blocked by Republicans Zelensky: sends bad message
(AFP, Berlin, 28th) The Republican Party has blocked a new wave of U.S. aid budgets for Ukraine, and President Biden’s military aid to Ukraine is also in trouble. Uzbek President Zelensky warned today that the United States will cut aid to Ukraine. Will send a bad message.
Eyeing a potential reduction in U.S. aid, Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Germany to use its economic influence to unite European Union (EU) partners and provide more aid to Kyiv to resist the Russian invasion.
Zelensky told German broadcaster ARD: “The negative attitude of the United States or the reduction of aid is a bad signal.”
Zelensky warned that this would not be good for anyone.
Asked whether he hoped Germany would take on a bigger role as U.S. aid (to Ukraine) is in trouble, Zelensky responded: “Germany can try to unite the EU.”
“Many countries have important economic relations with Germany and their economies depend on Germany’s decisions because the German economy is strong,” he said.
In another interview on the 24th, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged European countries to strengthen their commitment to providing weapons to Ukraine, triggering concerns that the United States may stop aid to Ukraine. Among the countries aiding Ukraine, the United States has contributed the most.
“Europe must do more to support Ukraine in defending its country,” Scholz told Germany’s Die Zeit newspaper, adding that so far European countries’ contributions to 2024 “are not enough.” many”.
Biden has made support for Ukraine a priority, and U.S. weapons and financial aid are critical to helping the pro-Western country confront far more powerful Russian forces.
However, the U.S. Republican Party opposes continued military aid to Ukraine and refuses to approve new budget expenditures unless the Democratic Party agrees to take comprehensive and severe new measures to combat illegal immigration.
The United States is in an election year, and Biden may once once more compete with Trump for the White House. Zelensky warned that if Trump returns to the White House, he may bring a “different strategy” to the Russia-Ukraine war.
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