The United States will allocate a billion dollars to Ukraine

The US Senate Appropriations Committee has supported the draft defense budget for 2026, which provides for about $ 1 billion in aid to Ukraine, Reuters reports.

Despite the fact that US President Donald Trump did not include such funding in his budget request, funding, as the agency reports, was supported by both Democrats and Republicans.

The bill assumes that $ 800 million will go to the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), and $225 million to the Baltic Security Initiative. But, as Senator Chris Coons clarified, a significant part of the funds will still go to support Ukraine.

"I would say that Ukraine's support is a billion dollars," he said.

Despite the fact that at the beginning of his presidential term, Trump opposed financial support for Ukraine, recently he has increasingly mentioned that he is "disappointed" with the policy of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In early July, he threatened with secondary duties of "about 100%" if there is no progress in the dialogue with Ukraine within 50 days. This deadline was supposed to expire on September 1, but later Trump reduced it to 10-12 days.