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Washington (AFP) - Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday announced the United States will provide key air defense munitions and artillery rounds to Ukraine as part of a $6 billion military aid package that is its largest ever for Kyiv. The package is the second this week, following another valued at $1 billion that was announced just after US President Joe Biden signed a much-delayed bill to provide new funding for Ukraine as it struggles to hold back Russian advances. "This is the largest security assistance package that we've committed to date," Austin told journalists following the concl...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States on Wednesday rushed to send ammunition, weapons and other war supplies to Ukraine, after President Joe Biden signed a much-delayed bill to support the country as it struggles to hold back Russian advances. The final approval of the legislation -- which includes $61 billion for Kyiv out of a total of $95 billion in funding -- comes after months of political wrangling as Ukrainian forces ran short of ammunition and suffered battlefield setbacks. "I just signed into law the national security package that was passed by the House of Representatives this weekend,...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States has approved a giant aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and a bill threatening to ban TikTok. Here is a breakdown of the $95 billion package, which was approved by the House of Representatives Saturday, the Senate Tuesday and signed into law by President Joe Biden Wednesday. UkraineThe majority of funds in the package, nearly $61 billion, are earmarked for Ukraine's war effort against the Russian invasion. President Volodymyr Zelensky had been pleading for this money for months, warning that "if Congress does not help Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden vowed to send fresh weapons to Ukraine within days as he prepared to sign on Wednesday an aid package including $61 billion meant to help Kyiv's forces push back against Russia. Congress approved on Tuesday the long-delayed legislation, which also contained a measure to ban TikTok in the United States if the popular social media app does not cut ties with its Chinese parent company. Days after the Republican-led House of Representatives cleared the aid -- part of a larger $95 billion package of assistance to allies including Israel and Taiwan -- the De...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Senate was marching toward a late Tuesday vote to green-light major military aid for Ukraine, a much-awaited package that includes assistance for Israel and Taiwan and sets the stage to ban social media app TikTok. Passage of the bill, strongly backed by President Joe Biden, is all but certain after the House of Representatives approved the assistance with broad bipartisan support following months of tense wrangling. "Let us not keep our friends around the world waiting for a moment longer," said top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer, whose party narrowly controls the cha...
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Washington (AFP) - The US House of Representatives on Saturday approved long-delayed military aid to Ukraine in a rare show of bipartisan unity, while also bolstering Israel and Taiwan defenses and threatening to ban Chinese-owned TikTok. The four bills in the $95 billion package were overwhelmingly approved in quick succession, though they leave the future of Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson in some doubt as he seeks to fend off angry far-right detractors. US President Joe Biden said in a statement the legislation would "deliver critical support to Israel and Ukraine; provide desperatel...
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Washington (AFP) - Republican Mike Johnson came out of nowhere six months ago to become speaker of the US House of Representatives, before emerging as an ardent defender of military aid to Ukraine, which the chamber approved Saturday. The evolution of this 52-year-old Southerner with carefully coiffed hair has been stunning. An arch-conservative Christian from Louisiana, he shot to the top leadership position in the House in October after the unprecedented ouster of then-speaker Kevin McCarthy in a rebellion by far-right lawmakers allied with Donald Trump. After several candidates were propose...
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Washington (AFP) - US lawmakers have approved new funding to provide Ukraine with desperately needed military aid, but their months-long delay in doing so was costly, undermining Kyiv's fight against invading Russian forces. Ukraine has received only limited aid this year from the United States -- which has provided tens of billions of dollars in military assistance to Kyiv -- because money to replace items drawn from US stocks ran out and opposition from some Republicans prevented the approval of supplemental funding. The resulting gaps in assistance saw Kyiv's troops -- outnumbered and outgu...
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Washington (AFP) - The US House of Representatives on Saturday approved a giant aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and a bill threatening to ban TikTok. Here is a breakdown of the $95 billion package, which now moves to the Senate, where it could be taken up as early as Tuesday. UkraineThe majority of funds in the package, nearly $61 billion, are earmarked for Ukraine's war effort against the Russian invasion. President Volodymyr Zelensky has been pleading for this money for months, warning that "if Congress does not help Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the war." Washington is Kyiv's main ...
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Washington (AFP) - Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives on Saturday quickly passed two key aid bills to counter China and bolster Taiwan while also threatening a ban on TikTok if it fails to divest from Beijing. Voting on major bills on Ukraine and Israel was yet to come. Lawmakers began voting on the foreign aid and arms bills, totaling some $95 billion, at 1:00 pm (1700 GMT), and embattled Republican Speaker Mike Johnson was forced to rely on Democratic votes for passage. The bills are the product of months of acrimonious negotiations, pressure from US allies and repeated pleas for a...
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