At the very moment when Russia announced this Saturday the bombardment of a convoy of Western weapons, American President Joe Biden endorsed colossal aid from the United States to kyiv. From South Korea, the president signed a law adopted Thursday by Congress providing a gigantic envelope of 40 billion dollars for the Ukrainian war effort against Russia.
The law includes six billion dollars to allow Ukraine to equip itself with armored vehicles and strengthen its anti-aircraft defense.
On Friday, the G7 countries meeting in Germany also promised to mobilize 19.8 billion dollars (18.7 billion euros) to help Ukraine “fill its financial deficit”.
An uncertain conflict
On Twitter, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked his American counterpart, saying he was “grateful”. “The support of the executive branch of the United States, of President Biden and of the American people for Ukraine’s fight against the Russian aggressor is crucial,” he added, using miniature flags in place of names. countries. “We look forward to this important and new help. It is now more necessary than ever, ”he added, in this tweet published in English and Ukrainian.
“The end (of the conflict) will be diplomatic,” he said earlier in an interview with the private Ukrainian television channel ICTV, during which he assured that 700,000 Ukrainian fighters were fighting against Russia. The war “will be bloody, it will be fighting, but it will end definitively through diplomacy”, he assured. “Discussions between Ukraine and Russia will resolutely take place. I don’t know in what format: with intermediaries, without them, in a wider circle, at the presidential level.
In the meantime, Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to circumvent the financial sanctions of Western allies, in particular by demanding that they pay for their gas in rubles. Finland, which refused these conditions, saw its supply of natural gas cut off on Saturday by the Russian supplier Gazprom.