Biden had announced $1 billion in humanitarian assistance for Ukraine last week
Washington DC: President Joe Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a call on Wednesday that the United States plans to provide Ukraine with an additional $500 million in “direct budgetary aid,” according to a White House readout of the leaders’ conversation.
The Biden administration’s budget plan, released on Monday, also calls for an additional $682 million for Ukraine, “to counter Russian malign influence and to meet emerging needs related to security, energy, cybersecurity issues, disinformation, macroeconomic stabilization, and civil society resilience.”
In their call on Wednesday, Biden and Zelenskyy discussed “how the United States is working around the clock to fulfill the main security assistance requests by Ukraine, the critical effects those weapons have had on the conflict, and continued efforts by the United States with allies and partners to identify additional capabilities to help the Ukrainian military defend its country,” according to the White House readout.
Zelenskyy, in his own summary of the roughly hour-long conversation, tweeted that he shared with Biden his “assessment of the situation on the battlefield and at the negotiating table.” The leaders also discussed “specific defensive support, a new package of enhanced sanctions, and macro-financial and humanitarian aid,” according to Zelenskyy.
