Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Monday that the United States would continue to provide significant assistance to Ukraine and downplayed the significance of the temporary funding bill passed by the US Congress, which does not provide assistance to Ukraine, according to Reuters.
Ukraine is very much counting on continued military support from the US and other Western countries from the start of military action on its territory from 2022.
Dmytro Kuleba reports that Kyiv is in talks with Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress. He said that the difficulties around the temporary bill that avoided a government shutdown on Saturday were an “incident” rather than something systemic. He told reporters as he greeted European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell before a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Kyiv:
“We don’t feel that the US support has been shattered… because the United States understands that what is at stake in Ukraine is much bigger than just Ukraine. It’s about the stability and predictability of the world and therefore I believe we will be able to find necessary solutions.”
According to Kuleba, the question is whether what happened in the US Congress over the weekend is “an incident or a system”. He said:
“I think it was an incident,” he said. “We have a very in-depth discussion with both parts of the Congress – Republicans and Democrats. And against the background of the potential shutdown, the decision was taken as it was. But we are now working with both sides of the Congress to make sure that it does not (get) repeat(ed) again under any circumstances.”
