(Finance) – The spokesperson of the US National Security Council, John Kirbydeclared that the funds allocated by the US Congress have run out and US assistance in the war against Russia “it stopped”. However, negotiations continue in Washington between Democrats and Republicans on a new aid package while the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky he concluded the mission in the Baltic countries with an appeal for new and stronger military support.
The US Congress has one week to negotiate the items of expense publicincluding new aid to Ukraine, and finalize the text before January 19, when a first partial shutdown. Zelensky stressed, however, that any “pause” in Ukraine’s defense againstRussian invasion it would only help Moscow rearm and allow it to “crush” Ukraine. The Ukrainian leader also urged European leaders to fulfill their pledge to deliver “the million rounds of ammunition promised last year.” At the same time, Kiev is also asking for further concrete guarantees on Ukraine’s future membership of NATO and EU structures.
The Ukrainian president also reserved a rebuke for the thousands of men who are old enough to be mobilized and fight forehead but they preferred to flee abroad. “These men should be in Ukraine and help Ukraine, this is a ethical question And moral“, said Zelensky. The Kiev Parliament, however, sent back to the government a bill on a new mobilization.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian authorities reported that during the night between Wednesday and Thursday two S-300 missiles Russians hit a hotel in Kharkiv where 11 people were injured, including some journalists. According to the police, one of them is a Turkish reporter. Ukrainian drone attacks also continue on Russian territory. Moscow authorities say unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down over the Rostov, Tula, Voronezh and Kaluga regions.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Moscow’s troops have guaranteed a 12-hour ceasefire, from 6 am to 6 pm, along the road that the new inspectors of theInternational Atomic Energy Agency they had to travel to reach the nuclear power plant Zaporizhzhia and relieve their colleagues.