US Senator Delays $40 Billion Aid Package to Ukraine
U.S. Senator Rand Paul Thursday blocked a vote on a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine, slowing U.S. efforts to quickly deliver more help to Ukraine as it battles a Russian invasion.
“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the U.S. economy,” Paul said.
A unanimous Senate vote would have expedited the delivery of aid to Ukraine.
Paul’s move, however, has delayed the vote for another week, when the Senate is expected to pass the bill.
Ukraine says negotiations are underway for the release of 38 incapacitated soldiers from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol in exchange for Russian prisoners.
In a post on Facebook, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereschuk described the talks as “very difficult.”
She said comments by “some politicians, journalists and public figures,” about the talks have hurt the negotiation process and requested that people refrain “from making public comments on what you don’t know.” Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto…
