President Joe Biden on Monday expedited weapons shipments to Ukraine based on a World War II law to help Ukraine’s allies. USA to defeat Nazi Germany.
Biden signed the order in the White House and indicated that his country supports the Ukrainians “in the defense of their territory and their democracy in the face of Putin’s brutal war.”
He also said he was ready to make a political concession in Congress to get quick approval of an additional $33 billion to support Ukraine.
“We cannot afford a delay in this vital war effort,” he said in a statement, urging the Congress to put “immediately on my desk” the draft financing law of Ukraine.
Admitting the billions of dollars spent by USABiden said that “giving in to aggression is even more costly.”
The rule signed by Biden, which facilitates the flow of military equipment, “is based on a World War II program to help Europe resist Hitler“said the White House.
President Biden’s signature comes the day after the date on which the Allied victory in Europe is celebrated in 1945, which marked the defeat of the Germany of Hitler.
Biden also stressed that this Monday marks the anniversary of Europe Day, which celebrates the start of the European Union in 1950 and the creation of an “economic power” and a “global force for peace”.
The loan update comes hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw a military parade on the Red square of moscualso as an annual commemoration of the Soviet victory against Nazi Germany.
In a tweet, the President of Ukraine Volodomir Zelensky he celebrated the move and also brought to mind the war against Germany.
“It is a historic step. I am convinced that we will win together again. And that we will defend democracy in Ukraine. And in Europe, like 77 years ago,” he wrote.
In the 1940s, the United States and the communist Soviet Union were briefly allies against Germanytheir common enemy.
At that time the US president franklin roosevelt he first used the lend-lease measure, which removed bureaucratic hurdles to funnel billions of dollars worth of equipment to European allies, including the Soviets.
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