Ukraine and the United States have “started working” on a bilateral security agreement, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this Monday, April 22, after speaking on the telephone with Joe Biden, whom he thanked for the new tranche of American aid that the American Senate must still ratify today.
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⇒ Ukraine and the United States are working on “a security agreement”
⇒ The American Senate in turn takes up aid to Ukraine
⇒ Sunak in Poland to announce new military aid to Ukraine
Ukraine and the United States working on “a security agreement”
If the two countries are currently working on a bilateral security agreement, Volodymyr Zelensky also assured that kyiv and Washington had made progress on the issue of the delivery of American long-range ATACMS missiles. In recent months, Ukraine has signed such “security agreements” with several European states, including France and the United Kingdom, which are essentially promises from these countries to continue to provide it with long-term military and financial support for face the Russian invasion.
During their telephone interview, Volodymyr Zelensky said he was “grateful to Joe Biden for his unwavering support for Ukraine” and expected “rapid and powerful” aid, which “will strengthen our air defense capabilities, for a long time to come.” range and artillery.
The US Senate in turn takes up aid to Ukraine
This time, it should be a formality: the American Senate will take up from Tuesday a huge aid plan for Ukraine, adopted on Saturday after months of painful negotiations in the House of Representatives. The leader of the Democratic senators, who control the upper house of the American Congress, Chuck Schumer, had promised on Saturday to “finish the job” without delay.
The boss of Republican senators, Mitch McConnell, estimated that it was “the Senate’s turn to make history” by adopting the enormous military assistance program that Joe Biden has been demanding for months.
Rishi Sunak in Poland to announce new military aid to Ukraine
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is traveling to Poland on Tuesday, where he will announce an additional £500 million in aid and the supply of new munitions to Ukraine, which faces “an existential threat”, Downing Street announced. Rishi Sunak will meet his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk, as well as NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, for discussions on Ukraine and, more broadly, European security.
This visit takes place at a time when kyiv is imploring its allies to increase their military aid, in particular by providing ammunition, essential to repelling Russian attacks.