Ukrainian President Zelensky Calls US Congress’ Consideration of Aid to Ukraine vs. Israel an ‘Embarrassment to the World’ – Latest Updates

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky considers the upcoming consideration in the US Congress of the draft law on aid to Ukraine separately from the draft law on aid to Israel as “an embarrassment to the world ”, Ukrainian news agency UNIAN reported. The head of state said this in an interview for the program “News Hour” on the American television channel PBS (PBS NewsHour), writes BTA.

UNIAN notes that Zelensky mentioned that the US Congress will discuss aid to Israel this week, but it is still unclear whether aid to Ukraine will be discussed at the same time.

“Strange. This is politics in its purest form. And if I have to be honest, it’s a shame for the world. Just a shame for democracy, for everyone who doesn’t speak up but about democracy,” said Zelensky, quoted by UNIAN.

He says that the separation of support for Ukraine from that to Israel would indicate that the upcoming elections in the US have a purpose, said the Ukrainian group.

“And it’s just real politics when the whole world says, ‘How could Iran hit Israel, now we have to help Israel and forget what’s happening in Ukraine .’ die in Ukraine every day.

“I believe that the United States will not end its assistance to us after all. And that we will be united nations. And that the policy of the President of the United States, if he changes – no one knows, it is the choice of the Americans – but if it has changed, the president’s policy will not change, at least in relation to Ukraine,” Zelensky also said. .

Another Ukrainian organization, UKRINFORM, said that the White House expressed yesterday that it did not agree with congressmen voting on a draft law on Israel separately from aid to Ukraine. UKRINFORM refers to the “Axios” website.

It is recalled that White House spokesperson Karin Jean-Pierre said at a briefing yesterday that the US government cannot “consider separately” the draft aid bill for Israel.

Previously, the White House spokesman for national security affairs, John Kirby, said that the White House is “against a stand-alone bill with implications only in relation to Israel”, reported UKRINFORM.

The House of Representatives (lower house) of the US Congress will vote this week on separate aid projects for Ukraine and Israel after months of political disagreement between the administration of President Joe Biden and his Republican opponents, Speaker of the House of Congress Mike Johnson announced last night.