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“We needed this money yesterday, not tomorrow, not today. If we can’t defend ourselves, Ukraine will fall. The global security system will be destroyed and the world will have to find a new one. Or there will be many conflicts, many wars of this kind, which may eventually lead to to the third world war,” added D. Šmihals.
Representatives of the extreme right wing of the US Republican Party in Congress have been blocking aid to Ukraine for months. Some of them have requested to link the aid to Ukraine with the allocation of funds for improving the security of the US-Mexico border.
However, House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, announced that he would push a package of bills to a vote on Saturday, which includes support for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. It provides support for Ukraine in the amount of 61 billion dollars. Of these, more than a third would be used to restock the U.S. armed forces, 13.8 billion for Ukraine to purchase weapons from U.S. manufacturers. Nine billion dollars would be set aside for economic aid as a loan that could later be foreclosed.
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