Arrival of US military aid to Kyiv. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 28The House of Representatives of the US Congress approved a draft law on lend-lease for Ukraine, the voting results show. The project, which provides for the simplification of the mechanism for transferring defense equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries, was approved by a majority of votes. The Senate approved the relevant document in early April, and now the bill will go to the signature of US President Joe Biden. The draft law on lend-lease for Ukraine, approved by both houses of Congress, is designed to simplify the provision of military assistance to the country. In particular, he temporarily removes a number of «requirements related to the president's powers to lend-lease defense equipment if it is intended for the government of Ukraine or other countries of Eastern Europe that have been subjected to Russian invasion,» according to the description of the document on the website of the US Congress. The bill was introduced by Texas Senator John Cornyn in January of this year. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. » /> The White House told what the additional means requested for Ukraine will be spent on. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov noted that pumping Ukraine with weapons from the West does not contribute to the success of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations, it will have a negative effect. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commenting on the issue of lend-lease for Ukraine, said that the United States and NATO countries had long been preparing to pump weapons to Kyiv. According to her, Western countries, instead of helping to normalize the situation, are only «planting» weapons on Ukraine. assistance to Ukraine
