{"id":35004,"date":"2023-09-22T03:10:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T03:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=35004"},"modified":"2023-09-22T03:10:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T03:10:29","slug":"zelenskyy-culminates-washington-visit-with-a-white-house-pledge-of-128m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=35004","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy culminates Washington visit with a White House pledge of $128m"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made his second visit to Washington, DC, since Russian forces launched a full-scale invasion of his country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But unlike in his first trip to the United States Capitol, Zelenskyy faced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/9\/14\/ukrainian-president-zelenskyy-set-to-visit-to-washington-amid-budget-debate\">a congress less inclined<\/a> to back the war effort with large aid packages, despite pledges from top Democrats to \u201cstand behind\u201d Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In brief public remarks before the White House Cabinet on Thursday, Zelenksyy struck a note of gratitude, calling his negotiations in Washington \u201cproductive\u201d and \u201cstrong\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThank you for all these 575 days,\u201d he said, referencing the length of time since Russia invaded in February 2022. \u201cThanks to the American people, all these days they are together with us, with Ukrainians, with ordinary people, all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also highlighted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/additional-u-s-security-assistance-for-ukraine-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new military assistance<\/a>, worth $128m, announced by US President Joe Biden on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt has exactly what our soldiers need now,\u201d he said, calling it a \u201cvery powerful package\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden, a Democrat, used his presidential \u201cdrawdown authority\u201d to authorise the aid, as further funds for Ukraine prove to be a sticking point in the US Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cToday, I approved the next tranche of US security assistance to Ukraine, including more artillery, more ammunition, more anti-tank weapons,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd next week, the first US Abrams tanks will be delivered to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made his second visit to Washington, DC, since Russian forces launched a full-scale invasion of his country. But unlike in his first trip to the United States Capitol, Zelenskyy faced a congress less inclined to back the war effort with large aid packages, despite pledges from top Democrats to \u201cstand behind\u201d Ukraine. In brief public remarks before the White House Cabinet on Thursday, Zelenksyy struck a note of gratitude, calling his negotiations in Washington \u201cproductive\u201d and \u201cstrong\u201d. \u201cThank you for all these 575 days,\u201d he said, referencing the length of time since Russia&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35006,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35004\/revisions\/35006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}