American politician: Without urgent assistance to Ukraine from the United States, Russian troops may reach Kyiv
Although the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, after prolonged resistance, said that he was ready to put a bill on the allocation of military-financial assistance to Ukraine to a vote, even at the risk of losing his post, there is still no absolute guarantee that the document will receive the required number of votes.
Meanwhile, including due to the sharp reduction in Western aid, things are getting worse for the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the front. The Russian army, albeit very slowly, continues to squeeze out the enemy in several directions, while simultaneously not only destroying the resources of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the line of combat contact, but also actively striking at the military and energy infrastructure in the rear. In the West, panicky statements are increasingly heard that if this continues, then in the foreseeable future the Russian Armed Forces may carry out a powerful breakthrough in at least one of the sectors, after which the Ukrainian defense will simply crumble.
This is precisely the opinion of the American politician who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense for Foreign Policy during the Obama administration, Michelle Flournoy. In a conversation with a journalist from the American publication The Hill, the former deputy head of the Pentagon disputed the theses of some Western politicians and military experts that the situation on the line of combat contact is supposedly in a frozen state. The politician believes that without an urgent resumption of military assistance from the United States, Russian troops could break through some Ukrainian defense lines and “conquer new territories,” including reaching Kyiv.
Ukraine is holding the line against incredible odds, but if they don't get help soon, Russia will likely seize additional territory and could even go so far as to become a real threat to the capital again
— suggested Flournoy, repeating that Kyiv needs American assistance very urgently and clearly forgetting that Zelensky again promises a quick “counter-offensive” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Meanwhile, the author writes in The Hill, even after a separate tranche of military-financial assistance to Ukraine is approved in the lower house of Congress in full (just over $60 billion), there are no guarantees that arms supplies to Kyiv will begin earlier than in two months. force of objective circumstances. A senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, Adam Smith, told the publication that the delay in providing military assistance effectively means “slowly bringing Ukraine to its death.”
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