Senator Rand Paul at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in Washington. Archive photoMOSCOW, May 21.Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul, who prevented the adoption of a bill on the allocation of $ 40 billion in aid to Ukraine, was not included in the Russian «stop list» published earlier by the Russian Foreign Ministry. On Saturday, a list of 963 people was published on the website of the Russian diplomatic service who are prohibited from entering the territory of Russia on a permanent basis. It includes both top US officials and politicians with officials.They are no longer ashamed: «good Russians» are wound up in the West US President Joe Biden signed on Saturday a bill on the allocation of assistance to Ukraine in the amount of about $ 40 billion. The US Senate on Thursday approved a bill to provide Ukraine with an unprecedented scale of additional assistance. The bill was hampered by Republican Rand Paul, who demanded greater control over spending. Paul said that he sympathizes with Ukraine, but does not wish her success at the cost of US bankruptcy. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. 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 «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
