The war continues and Ukraine is once again asking for help and support from the West, particularly from the United States, its “number one partner”. On Sunday, Volodymyr Zelensky indicated that a drop in United States military support for Ukraine would be a “bad signal” towards Russia, while any new American aid package is currently blocked in Congress.
Information to remember
⇒ “A cut in American aid would be a bad signal,” warns Zelensky
⇒ The head of Hungarian diplomacy in Ukraine to prepare for an Orban-Zelensky meeting
⇒ 3,000 French shells delivered each month to Ukraine
Heads of Hungarian diplomacy in Ukraine
The head of Hungarian diplomacy Peter Szijjarto is due to meet his counterpart Dmytro Kouleba on Monday in western Ukraine, ahead of a European summit focused on financial aid to the country at war after Budapest’s recent veto.
Objective: prepare a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in order to “find solutions” to their differences and “unblock crucial EU decisions for Ukraine”, according to kyiv. A sign of the extremely tense relations between the two neighbors, Mr. Szijjarto has never set foot in Ukraine since the launch of the Russian offensive, although he has visited Moscow several times.
A cut in aid to Ukraine would be a bad signal, says Zelensky
“The passivity of the United States or the lack of support would be a bad signal. It would not be fair to anyone,” said the Ukrainian president in an interview broadcast on Sunday by the German public television channel ZDF. “The United States is our number one partner,” he stressed. After delivering tens of billions of dollars in weapons to kyiv since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Joe Biden’s administration exhausted its funds at the end of 2023.
The president therefore asked Congress to approve some 61 billion additional dollars, but negotiations with the Republicans, which also concern immigration, are bogged down.
3,000 French shells delivered every month to kyiv
Ivan Gavrylyuk, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, who led the Ukrainian delegation at the first meeting of the “Artillery for Ukraine” coalition in Paris, claimed that France will be able to supply 3,000 shells per month , in an interview with the newspaper New Voice. “I thank France for its leadership within the Artillery Coalition and its concrete measures aimed at strengthening the firepower of the Ukrainian army,” he said.