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The President of the United States, Joe Biden, signed a bill that grants $40 $1 billion in aid to Ukraine, while attending a state dinner in South Korea , as published by the New York Post.
While Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky insinuated that might be willing to cede territory to Russia to save civilian lives.
The legislation, which passed Congress with bipartisan support, includes $24 billion dollars in military assistance and $8 billion in intelligence support.
A general economic support of $5 billion to address global food shortages that could result from the collapse of Ukrainian agriculture and more than $1 billion to help refugees .
The bill was delivered to Biden under unusual circumstances: a US official took a copy on a commercial flight to Seoul for the president to sign, after Kentucky’s Rand Paul held him in the Senate for a week, according to a White House official.
The signing of the bill triggered rounds of speculation about exactly what weapons the United States will send and when.
“Sources say that it is not yet the should the US provide Ukraine with MIM-104 Patriot systems in the foreseeable future,” Illia Ponomarenko, a defense reporter, tweeted. from the kyiv Independent news outlet.
“Such an option is seen as a long-term post-war step to support Ukraine as a military power strong region that guarantees peace and stability”.
The signing took place one day after the most s significant Russia so far in the nearly four-month war, the capture of the port city of Mariupol, and the day Zelensky commemorated the third anniversary of his inauguration.
Zelensky indicated that he might be willing to cede part of the eastern from Ukraine to Russia to save the population.
“I think that no matter the appetite that different sectors of our population have, the most valuable thing is to save more people and soldiers,” Zelensky said at a press conference on Saturday, according to Pravda Ukraine.
The conflict “will be bloody, there will be fighting, but it will only end definitively through diplomacy,” Zelensky said.
“Nobody gives anything away , but there are lands where they entered and occupied, and there are some areas where they have advanced a lot”, continued Zelensky.
“To get there to the line that existed before 24 (February) without unnecessary losses, I think it would be a victory for our country ”.
“We have broken the backbone of one of the strongest armies in the world. We have already done it. Even psychologically. They will not recover in the next few years,” Zelensky said. “But let’s not forget that all our soldiers also want to live.”
While Ukraine could win on the battlefield, the war will only end “at the negotiating table,” he said, according to the BBC.
On Tuesday, kyiv’s chief negotiator, Mykhaylo Podolyak, said the talks were off.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused the kyiv authorities on Wednesday of not wanting to continue talks to end hostilities, according to the BBC.
At least 12 civilians were killed in the city of Severodonetsk, where thousands are still hiding amid constant artillery fire, Sky News reported.
“The Russians are finishing off Sevierodonetsk like Mariupol,” Lugansk Governor Serhiy Hajday said in a post on Telegram.
Some 50 miles west of Sevierodonetsk, the city of Sviatohirsk was shelled by Russian forces early on Saturday, he said. the governor of Donetsk Oblast to the kyiv Independent, destroying the local school. The school was built in 1200 with the help of the UN and Japan, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said in a tweet that shared a video of the building. reduced to rubble.
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