US President Joe Biden asked Congress to approve more military aid for Ukraine. Credit: Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 2.0President Biden asked Congress to approve another $20 billion of military aid to Ukraine on Thursday in order to “help Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression.”
Biden also requested for $8.5bn in economic aid to Kyiv and $3bn in humanitarian relief.
In a letter to the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, Biden said: “What I want to make clear to the Congress and the American people is this: the cost of failing to stand up to violent aggression in Europe has always been higher than the cost of standing firm against such attacks.”
Biden said US military support to Ukraine has so far amounted to 10 anti-tank weapons for every tank that Russia has deployed to Ukraine.
But despite his strong rhetoric, he said the US was not attacking Russia. “We are helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression,” he insisted.
