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Mike Johnson, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives,
has said he will hold a long-awaited vote on a $95 billion
Ukraine-Israel aid bill, including $60.84 billion for Ukraine,
as early as Saturday.
While the European Union has pledged more overall aid, the
United States has given by far the biggest military contribution
to help Ukraine fight Russia.
"Ukraine has to not only fight to provide profit for the
Americans but it also has to fight to the last Ukrainian and is
loaded up with debt," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "The
favorite colonial policy of the United States of America."
Peskov noted that "a very significant" part of the proposed aid
would remain in the U.S. military-industrial complex.
"All experts and semi-experts can now see with the naked eye the
situation on the front, which is far from favorable for the
Ukrainian side, so this cannot change anything," Peskov said of
the aid package.
Russia controls about 18% of Ukraine and Western leaders and spy
chiefs say the war is at a crossroads which could lead to
victory for Russia and humiliation for the West unless Ukraine
urgently gets more support.
Russia's war against Ukraine has triggered the worst crisis in
relations between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban
Missile Crisis, according to Russian and U.S. diplomats.
Ukraine, supported by the West, says it is defending itself
against a Russian imperial-style land grab. Russia says the
United States tried to shunt Ukraine into the West's orbit and
then use it to threaten Russia.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by
Andrew Osborn)
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