Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Dan Sabbagh in Kyiv

Approval of $61bn aid from US shows Ukraine will not be abandoned, says Zelenskiy

President Zelenskiy walks down a barricaded path with high walls
Voldoymyr Zelenskiy said he wanted to get ‘tangible assistance to the soldiers on the frontline as soon as possible’. Photograph: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Reuters

Ukraine’s president has said the vote by the US House of Representatives to pass a long-delayed $61bn (£49bn) military aid package demonstrated that his country would not be abandoned by the west in its effort to fight the Russian invasion.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview with US television that Saturday’s vote showed Ukraine would not be “a second Afghanistan”, whose pro-western government collapsed during an US-led pullout in the summer of 2021.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.