US President Joe Biden assured his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, who is visiting Washington, of continued US support and said that the US Congress “has no alternative” but to vote for continued aid to Ukraine, writes AFP.

“I count on the insight of the US Congress. There is no alternative,” the American president replied to a journalist’s question about the opposition of some elected Republicans to the adoption by Congress of a new aid package for Ukraine.

President Biden wanted to clarify that the first Abrams tanks will arrive in Ukraine “next week” to strengthen the Ukrainian armed forces in the counteroffensive against Russian forces.

“Next week, the first American Abrams tanks will be delivered to Ukraine,” said the leader of the Democrats in the White House in the presence of the Ukrainian president, who is making his second visit to Washington after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. .