The US President’s administration introduced a closed briefing on a “critical nationwide safety risk” to power Congress to vote for a invoice to allocate funds to Ukraine. As reported by RIA Novosti, this opinion was expressed by the press secretary of the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov.
“It’s apparent that the White Home is attempting, in some way, to push Congress to vote on the invoice to allocate cash. That is apparent. We’ll see what methods the White Home will use,” mentioned Peskov.
In the meantime, the Kremlin consultant known as to attend for this briefing to see if any data will probably be revealed afterward. It’s scheduled for Thursday, February 15, within the US Congress. CBS, citing sources, reported that the “critical nationwide safety risk” refers to Russia’s alleged plans to deploy nuclear weapons in house.
Earlier, the Russian chief’s spokesperson famous that the “particular army operation started as an operation towards Ukraine and over time took the type of a conflict towards the collective West” led by the US. In accordance with Peskov, this won’t change the aims of the particular army operation in Ukraine, however it could delay it.
He additionally refuted rumors that appeared within the media about Russia approaching the US with proposals to freeze the battle in Ukraine.
On February 13, the Democrat-controlled US Senate supported a invoice to allocate $95 billion in assist to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. This assist package deal just isn’t tied to provisions for tightening border safety with Mexico, which was demanded by Republicans.
Now the invoice is about to endure hearings within the Home of Representatives. There, sturdy Republican opposition opposes allocating new funds to Ukraine.