The United States has already provided more than 3 billion dollars in weapons to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion, on February 24. The White House is now seeking to obtain sufficient funding from Congress to be able to extend that assistance through October.
European Union countries have so far seized more than $30 billion in Russian assets, of which $7 billion is luxury goods belonging to oligarchs (yachts, works of art, real estate and helicopters), the White House said.
From its side, the United States has “sanctioned and blocked ships and planes worth more than 1,000 million (dollars), and frozen hundreds of millions of dollars of Russian elites in American accounts.”
Biden spoke Thursday morning to express his support for Ukrainians against “Russia’s brutal war.”