Zelenskyy again called on the US Congress to approve a vital aid package that has been blocked for months by political wrangling. Ukraine's forces are facing new onslaughts from Russian troops in the east and daily attacks on cities and infrastructure from Russian missiles and drones.
Ukraine's skies, he said, were "not protected by rhetoric”. "And the fact that we in Ukraine have been waiting months for a vital support package—the fact that we are still waiting for a vote in Congress—testifies to the fact that the confidence of terrorists has also been growing for months," he said. "There is no more time to be wasted." Mike Johnson, speaker of the US House of Representatives, said on Sunday that he would try to secure passage of aid to Israel this week after Iran's attack but he did not say whether the legislation would include assistance for Ukraine and other allies.
Iran has supplied thousands of Shahed kamikaze drones to Russia throughout its invasion of Ukraine launched in February 2022. They have been used to exhaust Ukrainian air defences and hit infrastructure far from the front lines.
"With all my due respect and gratitude to the United States of America, do you believe that the US Army does not have one spare Patriot battery that it can transfer to Ukraine?" he said. With inputs from Reuters. Join Nitin Gokhale's Strategic Group WhatsApp Channel to get the latest updates from articles on our website and videos on our YouTube Channel:
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