Now that a new $61bn programme of funding for Ukraine has been passed by the US Congress after a long delay, two new funding packages are likely to be set in motion. Elsewhere, Switzerland has also approved an aid package for Kyiv.
Russia would struggle to sustain its invasion of Ukraine without China's help, the US secretary of state has said.Antony Blinken - speaking in Beijing following talks with China's top diplomat, Wang Yi - said he had 'reiterated' serious concerns about China providing components that are 'powering Russia's brutal war of aggression against Ukraine'.
Those weapons are being used to 'demolish a power grid and other civilian infrastructure and to kill innocent children, women and men', Mr Blinken said.He went on: 'Russia would struggle to sustain its assault on Ukraine without China's support.
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