The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, urged the US Congress this Thursday to approve $60 billion in aid to Ukraine, because it is the financing that Kyiv needs “immediately,” while NATO studies creating a new fund to assist the country.
“In terms of financing, the most important thing, the most urgent, is that the additional package (of 60 billion dollars) is approved,” Blinken said from NATO headquarters in Brussels, where foreign ministers held the meeting today. 75th anniversary of the Atlantic Alliance.
The head of American diplomacy pointed out that “that would be the most immediate and important source of additional funds that Ukraine needs to help it continue to protect itself against Russian aggression,” which is why the vote in Congress, where the Republican party blocks aid , “it must occur as soon as possible.”
“Beyond that, we are talking of course with our NATO allies and with our partners about what they can do, about what we can do, about what the Alliance can do to ensure that Ukraine has the funds it needs, both to address their critical current situation and in the future,” Blinken said.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg proposed the creation of a 100 billion euro fund to help Ukraine, an idea that the Alliance's foreign ministers analyzed and that the head of the Alliance wants to approve at the summit. that the heads of state and government of the organization will celebrate in Washington in the month of July.
Blinken stressed that the allies also discussed what military aid they can provide to Ukraine, whose Foreign Minister, Dmitro Kuleba, requested Patriot air defense systems to intercept Russian missiles.