According to Russian media reports, in the presidential election held in March this year, Putin, who was successfully re-elected, will be sworn in on May 7 next month to start his fifth presidential term. However, this president is destined to not be easy, and Putin and the Russia he leads will face unprecedented pressure from Western countries. This is just before Putin's inauguration, the United States restarted military aid to Ukraine. After a long tug-of-war, this week, the U.S. Congress finally passed the White House's draft aid bill for Ukraine, and Ukraine is expected to receive up to $61 billion in military aid. And this time, the White House promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: military aid will arrive soon and will not take too long.
At the end of last year, because the original budget was spent and the new budget bill was not approved, the United States could only suspend military aid to Ukraine. Originally, Ukraine thought that after a pause of a week or two, the new budget bill would be passed, and military aid would be resumed, but who would have thought that this delay would be almost half a year, and the Ukrainian army, which is heavily dependent on military aid, has lost American aid, and life is very difficult, and the situation is getting worse day by day. During this period of time, the Russian army launched a large-scale military operation against the Ukrainian army, achieved good results, and recaptured some important strategic towns from the Ukrainian army. Seeing that the war situation is becoming more and more unfavorable to the Ukrainian army, Zelensky repeatedly shouted to the United States, asking the United States to resume military aid as soon as possible. U.S. President Joe Biden has also continued to put pressure on Congress to approve the new aid bill for Ukraine as soon as possible, otherwise the consequences will be serious.
Some military experts said that after the resumption of US military aid to Ukraine, the unfavorable situation of the Ukrainian army on the battlefield is expected to be alleviated, especially the shortage of weapons and ammunition, which should be resolved soon. This military aid is equivalent to the Ukrainian army in a desperate situation, which has grabbed a "life-saving straw", but it is actually difficult to say whether it can "go ashore". A strategic researcher in Kyiv said that the resumption of military aid by the United States to Ukraine provides a respite for the Ukrainian army, and to a certain extent, it can weaken or delay the offensive of the Russian army and reduce the casualties of the Ukrainian army. However, it is unlikely that the Ukrainian army will completely reverse the unfavorable situation of the war through this military aid, and the Zelensky authorities should be well aware of this.
If we only look at the budget bill, the $61 billion in military aid is still quite a lot, which is enough for the Ukrainian army to last for a while. But the question is how much Ukraine can really get the $61 billion, judging from the previous US media exposure, a large part of the military aid funds provided by the United States to Ukraine eventually flowed into the pockets of the United States itself. Let's just put it this way, of the $61 billion in military aid, Ukraine can get $21 billion, which is not bad. And the $21 billion may still be paid in installments, and it is impossible to give it to Ukraine at one time. What the Ukrainian army needs now is a fierce drug, a special medicine, which needs to be effective in a very short period of time, and the White House said that the military aid will arrive soon, and it is estimated that it will have to be delayed again and again.
There is also news, which is very unfavorable to Ukraine, the United States will hold a presidential election this year, if the current President Biden can be re-elected, the United States' military aid to Ukraine may continue, once Trump wins the election, the United States' position on Ukraine may change immediately. So even if the US Congress approves the new aid bill for Ukraine, Kyiv will not be happy.