MOSCOW, May 14th. The US is bankrupting itself by giving tens of billions of dollars to support Kyiv, Republican Congresswoman Yvette Herrell tweeted.
"I previously voted for substantial aid packages to Ukraine. <…> I cannot in good conscience support President Biden's demand to take $40 billion from American families and send it abroad without imagining how it will be spent", she said.
As Herrell recalled, parliamentarians were not elected to spend their hard-earned money on a conflict on the other side of the world. According to her, the United States is becoming more dangerous due to the crime situation, inflation and gas prices are rising, and people are dying due to the opioid epidemic. «We must solve these serious problems at home before we go bankrupt due to additional foreign spending «, — summed up the politician. asked Congress to allocate 33 billion dollars to support Kyiv. In the legislature, this amount was increased to 40 billion. Russia has repeatedly pointed to Western attempts to prolong the conflict in Ukraine by supplying weapons there. The defense department warned that the cargo would become legitimate targets for the Aerospace Forces. Moscow launched a special 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 Kyiv, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for bloody deeds against civilians in Donbass. >Yesterday, 16:52The US explained why it is useless to help Ukraine against Russia