Bipartisan support from the United States is incredibly encouraging for Ukraine and its soldiers, Ukraine’s president said Volodymyr Zelensky after a telephone conversation he had with the US president Joe Biden.
Joe Biden, who discussed the issue of military support for Kiev with Zelensky in a phone call yesterday, Thursday (10/19), will ask Congress for $100 billion in new spending, including $60 billion for Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel, said a source familiar with his plan.
The US is the single largest source of aid to Kiev after Russia invaded Ukraine last year in February. Half of the $60 billion Biden is requesting for Ukraine will go toward replacing and modernizing the US weapons stockpile, the source said.
“The unwavering bipartisan support for Ukraine in the United States is incredibly encouraging to all of our fighters and to our entire nation“, Zelensky wrote today on the X platform (formerly Twitter).
“America’s investment in the defense of Ukraine will ensure long-term security for all of Europe and the world,” he added.
Putin in Rostov
Meanwhile, the Russian president Vladimir Putin went on Thursday to the headquarters of the Russian army for operations in Ukraine, in Rostov-on-Don (south), as the Kremlin said today.
Putin visited the headquarters of the Russian armed forces in Rostov-on-Don on his way back from Perm in the Urals where the Russian president spent the entire day yesterday, the Kremlin said in a statement.
During his visit, the Russian president, as reported by the Athens News Agency, met with the chief of staff and commander of military operations in Ukraine, Valery Gerasimov, who presented the situation of the Russian attack, according to the same source.
The meeting came as Ukraine announced on Tuesday that it had successfully used for the first time ATACMS missiles that have a range of up to 100 miles (165 km), which the United States delivered in top secrecy.
For his part, Vladimir Putin estimated on Wednesday that these deliveries will not affect the development of the conflict and all they will succeed in is prolonging Ukraine’s “anguish”.
Rostov-on-Don, located near Ukraine, became the operational center of Russian forces in Ukraine. Putin’s previous visit to the army headquarters in the city took place in August. He had also visited it in March.
The city was also in June the scene of a spectacular mutiny by Wagner mercenaries who briefly occupied army headquarters before calling off their mutiny.
Source: News Beast
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