$20.4 billion wants to be spent on security and military assistance to Ukraine.
US President Joe Biden has asked Congress for $33 billion in humanitarian and military assistance to Ukraine, reports the Chronicle.info with reference to UNIAN.
20.4 billion dollars want to send to the security sector and military assistance to Ukraine, as well as to finance US efforts to strengthen European security in cooperation with NATO allies.
$8.5 billion will go to support the Ukrainian economy, $3 billion will go to humanitarian aid.
According to the interlocutors, we are talking about the transfer of additional artillery, anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons, improving cybersecurity, advanced air defense systems, mine clearance systems.
Biden's request is expected to receive widespread support among Republicans and Democrats, despite the fact that it will raise total US spending on Ukraine to $39 billion in 9 months.
Big The aid package will be accompanied by a Congressional proposal to amend several old criminal laws to make it easier for the United States to seize the assets of sanctioned Russian oligarchs in favor of Ukraine. NBC also wrote about this earlier.
Now, according to the law, in order to sell seized assets, prosecutors must first prove that these assets are the proceeds of crime.
Specialists say that without of crime, the oligarchs could sue for the return of their property and would have a good chance of winning. At Biden's suggestion, Congress will introduce a new article — possession of income received directly from corruption schemes with the Russian government.