US Congress Building on Capitol Hill in Washington DCWASHINGTON, Mar 7 week to approve the allocation of $ 10 billion to help Ukraine, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Earlier, the Washington Post reported that the administration of US President Joe Biden is asking the US Congress to approve the allocation of funds to help Ukraine. 10 billion will go to «fight the humanitarian crisis,» help Ukrainian defense, protect the power grid from disruptions, and «further help European allies.» The Biden administration has requested $10 billion in humanitarian, military, and economic aid to Ukraine. emergency funding under our comprehensive public finance legislation,” Pelosi said in a statement. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on Feb. 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President emphasized.
