An emergency package of 13.6 billion dollars of military and humanitarian aid for the besieged Ukraine and its European allies easily passed the US Congress on Thursday, being included in a government spending bill that is loaded with political prizes for Democrats and Republicans.
At a time when the invasion ordered by the Russian president Vladimir Putin has killed thousands of people and forced more than 2 million more to flee, the Senate He passed the $1.5 trillion bill with a sharply bipartisan vote of 68-31.