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includes funding for Israel as well as the Indo-Pacific.Speaking to the BBC in Washington DC on Wednesday, Prime Minister Shmyhal said of
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President Volodymyr Zelensky said that if Russia won the conflict, it could next invade Poland, triggering World War Three.But Kremlin
officials have ridiculed such claims as Western scaremongering
never attacked a country within Nato, which includes Poland
Shmyhal was asked about a recent claim by Republican House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul that members of his own party were being
blocked potential assistance to Ukraine for months.Some of those lawmakers have objected to sending tens of billions of dollars in aid
overseas, without first passing funds for US-Mexico border security.These conservatives have also dismissed as smears any suggestion that
they could be Kremlin dupes.President Joe Biden said in a statement on Wednesday he would sign the package into law immediately once passed
the West to keep fighting Russia, which has superior numbers and an abundance of artillery ammunition.Months of congressional impasse have
already had profound effects on the battlefield.Ukraine has found itself outmanned and outgunned and forced into retreat because of
ammunition rationing and falling morale.In February, it retreated from Avdiivka, a town near occupied Donetsk that it had held since the
conflict began in 2014.Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, a general overseeing the withdrawal, cited a 10-to-one artillery ammunition advantage for his
of Bakhmut in May 2023.Both came after months of attritional warfare in which Russian forces levelled buildings with massed artillery and
casualties have left Ukraine, unlike Russia, with a shortage of manpower.The government earlier this month lowered the age of conscription
from 27 to 25 in an effort to raise hundreds of thousands of new recruits.President Zelensky has said 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been
US officials, however, believe at least 70,000 have died and many more are injured.A BBC investigation calculates that at least 50,000
Russian troops have been killed
Tens of thousands are believed to have been injured.Russia has transformed its industrial base into a wartime economy - spending 40% of its
national budget on armaments while striking deals with Iran and North Korea for ammunition, missiles and drones.Source: BBC--Agencies
