Mon 02 October 2023:
The White House on Monday rejected claims by the Kremlin that Western fatigue on aid for Ukraine would grow after a deal to avoid a US government shutdown left out funds for Kyiv.
“If Putin thinks he can outlast us he’s wrong,” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, adding that there was a large Western coalition supporting Ukraine against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion.
The White House has been in touch with allies and partners about continued funding for Ukraine and those conversations will continue, White House spokespersonKarine Jean-Pierre said on Monday.
Congress passed a stopgap bill on Saturday that extended government funding for more than a month and avoided a government shutdown but didn’t contain any new aid for Ukraine.
A Ukrainian victory in the war with Russia depends on cooperation with the EU, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, told EU foreign ministers gathered in Kyiv on Monday. Zelenskiy, who was speaking after the US Congress left Ukraine war aid out of a spending bill, also underlined the importance of “defence support” for Ukraine during the war, Reuters reports.
The EU has proposed a “bilateral envelope” worth €5bn for Ukraine’s defence as part of the existing European peace facility, its chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, said at a press conference in Kyiv after an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers, Lisa O’Carroll reports.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s 10-point peace plan is “the only game in town” the EU’s chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, has said at a press conference of EU-Ukraine foreign ministers’ meeting in Kyiv today. The meeting of the EU foreign ministers was “sending a strong missile to Russia that we are not intimidated by your missiles or your drones”.
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