The decision by the US House of Representatives to earmark $61 billion in long-delayed aid for Ukraine shows the country will not become
"a second Afghanistan," President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday.
“This aid will strengthen Ukraine and send the Kremlin a powerful signal that it will not be the second Afghanistan,” Zelensky said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.” That year their decision to allow the Al Qaeda jihadist group safe haven saw the United States invade in the wake of the September 11 attacks — sparking yet another insurgency.
The delay has undermined Kyiv’s fight against Moscow, as money to replace items drawn from US stocks ran out. Hundreds protested on Sunday against the US troop presence in military-ruled Niger where a delegation from Washington is expected within days to arrange an orderly withdrawal.
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