A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the US Senate to provide Ukraine with $54.6 billion in aid over the next two years, The New York Times reports.
The authors of the document are Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire and a senior member of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska. They propose to allocate money for direct military aid, as well as for replenishing American stockpiles. According to the plan, up to a third of the aid will be financed by income from frozen Russian assets and the sale of weapons to European allies.
A significant portion of the funds is intended for the purchase of new weapons to replace old systems delivered to Ukraine. The project also expands the president’s ability to unilaterally approve deliveries to Kyiv without the approval of Congress.
The project was introduced against the backdrop of Trump’s change of position on the issue of aid to Kyiv (in mid-July, the US agreed with NATO to supply weapons to Ukraine at the expense of European countries).
Since February 2022, Congress has approved five bills to help Ukraine, totaling about $174 billion.
Western countries have frozen about $300 billion in Russian assets, including about $5 billion in the United States, since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has warned that Western attempts to use these funds to help Kyiv will have consequences. President Vladimir Putin calls the possible confiscation of assets “robbery.” However, he says the actions will speed up the regionalization of payment systems, which is generally good for the world.
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