The head of the Russia Today TV channel, Margarita Simonyan, could not contain her excitement after the US Congress failed to agree on the unblocking of the latest package of military aid to Ukraine, directly asking “when will we drink to our victory?”.

This was reported by BBC journalist Francis Scarr, who after the start of the invasion of Ukraine became known for monitoring Russian mass media and TV channels. “The message here at the bottom right in an interview with RT head Margarita Simonyan says: ‘Next: when will we drink to our victory?'” he points to a screenshot taken during a show on Russian television.

The European Commission banned Russia Today and Sputnik, another prominent propaganda channel of the Russian state, in the EU shortly after the attack on Ukraine.

Scarr also notes that it’s hard to overstate the level of confidence shown by Russian broadcasters in the wake of the latest strikes on Ukraine, from Congress blocking more than $60 billion in U.S. aid to the European Union’s failure last week to approve its €50 billion. a multi-year aid package for Kyiv.

The British journalist cites another example, noting how TV presenter Olga Skabeeva, who has been dubbed the “iron puppet” of President Vladimir Putin, “relishes” an article by the Bloomberg agency entitled “If Putin wins? US allies fear defeat due to delay in aid to Ukraine.”

The US Congress will not approve a new aid package for Ukraine by the end of the year

The leaders of the US Senate, Democrat Chuck Schumer and Republican Mitch McConnell, announced on Wednesday that lawmakers in Washington have failed to reach an agreement on unblocking a new aid package for Ukraine, but they hope to be able to vote on the aid “. early next year.”

Since October 20, the administration of President Biden has asked Congress to allocate almost 106 billion dollars to finance ambitious plans for the security of the borders of Ukraine, Israel and the United States. Because the spending was proposed in a national security bill, it required approval by the House of Representatives, the lower house of the legislature in Washington.

More than 60 billion of this amount was to be allocated to Ukraine. The House of Representatives announced on December 7 that it had refused to approve a new aid package

Mike Johnson, the new Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, and other Republican lawmakers have made it necessary to approve a package of additional measures to secure the US southern border, which is facing an influx of illegal migrants trying to cross the border from Mexico.

But at the negotiations between Republicans and Democrats on this matter, no consensus was reached, under which conditions aid to Ukraine and Israel was also blocked.

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