US House approves crucial $61bn war aid for Ukraine - Adomonline.com

In an evening address on Sunday, he said that if Ukraine were given the right weapons it could change the situation on the frontline.

Alongside replenishing weapons and ammunition systems, Ukraine will also receive more than $9bn (£7.28bn) of economic assistance in the form of “forgivable loans” – ones that do not need to be paid back.

Welcoming the result, Mr Biden praised the bipartisan effort to “answer history’s call” and urging the Senate to approve it quickly “so that I can sign it into law and we can quickly send weapons and equipment to Ukraine to meet their urgent battlefield needs”.

Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the significant boost in aid would supplement the tens of billions of assistance being provided to Ukraine by European allies.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the package would “make the United States of America richer, further ruin Ukraine and result in the deaths of even more Ukrainians”.

“It gives us strength, it gives us courage and resolve to continue to fight, and I’m sure that the situation at the front will soon change in our favour,” he said.

Both Mr Zelensky and head of the CIA William Burns have said that Ukraine will lose the war without American help.