The Russian army has been on the offensive for several months at different points of the front line, which extends about 1,000 km in eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukraine is struggling against the Russian army, which is superior in number of soldiers and quantity of weapons and ammunition.
The adoption of this aid package comprising nearly $61 billion in military and economic assistance has been demanded for months by Joe Biden. It has already been approved by the Senate with a Democratic majority, but remains blocked in Congress, with Republican representatives, supporting Donald Trump, turning a deaf ear six months before the presidential election. In mid-March, President Volodymyr Zelensky deemed a rapid decision by the American Congress on the release of aid to his country to be "critically important." The U.S. Congress is preparing to vote on aid of 60 billion dollars paralyzed since last year while Moscow multiplies its forces in Ukraine. The Kremlin assured Thursday that the aid package "will not be able to change anything" in the situation on the front.