​The US Congress will end 2023 without approving the $61 billion package that Kyiv and the White House have been pushing for, according to a statement released on Tuesday by the leaders of Democrats and Republicans in the US Senate, AFP and Reuters reported, citing Agerpres. .

Negotiators from the Republican and Democratic parties did not reach an agreement, despite repeated pressure from President Biden and calls from his Ukrainian colleague Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

Senate leaders Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said they hoped to be able to vote on the bailout “early next year.”

It is yet another disappointment for the Ukrainian president in a year marked by the unfulfilled hope of a major successful counteroffensive, increasing Russian pressure on the front and disapproval of 50 billion euros in aid from the European Union.

The White House has already warned that there will not be enough resources for Ukraine “until the end of the year”.

President Joe Biden proposed a new large-scale aid package for Ukraine

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.

But at the time, the House was in an unprecedented deadlock, without a speaker for more than two weeks, after a group of Republican congressmen backed an impeachment motion against Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican-elect. .

After several failed attempts to elect a new speaker, the House of Representatives finally succeeded on October 25. But Mike Johnson, the compromise candidate between the radical faction of the Republican Party and the moderate wing, is known for his opposition to helping Ukraine defend itself against Russia.

It received the lowest possible grade of “F” from Republicans for Ukraine, a rights group that compiles a report for US congressmen on how they vote on aid proposals for Kyiv.

The House of Representatives announced on December 7 that it refused to approve a new $106 billion aid package proposed by the White House. More than 60 billion of this amount was to be allocated to Ukraine.

Johnson and other Republican lawmakers conditioned approval of the package on additional measures to secure the US’s southern border, which is facing an influx of illegal migrants trying to cross the border from Mexico.

The news is updated.

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