US and EU struggle to keep funding Ukraine war | DW News

Well Ukraine’s Ukraine’s most important allies are facing limited political room to maneuver the European Union has failed to come up with a new Aid package after Hungary vetoed a 50 billion Euro plan and in the United States President Biden wants Congress to approve more than $61 billion in aid for ke but that

Bill has been stalled as Republicans insist on more concessions before voting for it let’s get more from Washington correspondent Janelle Duman welcome Janelle um remind us why Congressional Republicans are blocking this new and badly needed military aid package for Ukraine well essentially this package has turned into a legislative bargaining

Chip here in Washington so Republicans uh essentially held it up in Congress saying that they won’t pass new aid for Ukraine unless they see uh a deal for tighter controls on the US Mexico border for their part Democrats signaled a willingness to negotiate on this in

Order to get Ukraine Aid passed but a couple of items on the Republican wish list they simply deemed as simply too extreme such as uh the Detention of entire migrant families so in the last days of Congress uh for 2023 there were 11th Hour negotiations that yielded no

Results lawmakers went home without a deal on the border or on Ukraine lawmakers return next week and that is when negotiations will have to continue right and is there any point to these negotiations is there something that that would make Republicans change their minds well it depends on which

Republicans we’re talking about Senate Republicans do say that they support Ukraine House Republicans have been voting against so it depends on whether these motivations are really about the Border or about an actual reluctance to help Ukraine if it’s the latter then it’s kind of hard to see what would move

Republicans House Republicans have also been pointing to uh theall the counter offensive uh from Ukraine saying that that is a reason to curtail Aid or um or attach conditions to the aid the idea being that American Support doesn’t appear to be going towards a Ukrainian Victory but of course without us support

That Ukrainian Victory becomes even harder to achieve so if the blocking continues does the president have any other way of keeping support in Ukraine well a few options are being reviewed uh among them the use of uh seized Russian assets so along with other G7 Nations uh Washington is looking into putting 300

Billion of seized Russian Central Bank assets uh towards Ukraine now uh there were initially a few concerns around this idea one that it might provoke a retaliatory response from Russia or send a worrisome signals to countries uh that hold their Assets in dollars or at the

Federal Reserve Bank of New York where a sizable chunk of these assets are held but support for this idea seems to be growing and Biden is uh pushing allies to come up with a strategy around this before February 24 which we know is the second anniversary of the Russian

Invasion of Ukraine okay thanks for that Janelle Janelle Duman a Washington

Ukraine’s most important allies are facing limited political room to maneuver. The European Union has failed to come up with a new aid package, after Hungary vetoed a 50 billion euro plan. And in the United States, President Biden wants Congress to approve more than 61 billion dollars in aid for Kyiv. But that bill is stalled as Republicans insist on more concessions before voting for it.

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41 comments

  2. What is the nitty gritty detailed plan after more and more? ‘As long as it takes ‘ is not a plan. It wasn’t after 20 years in Afghanistan or 12 years in Vietnam.

  7. Why is she swallowing so loudly every few seconds lol it's distracting.

    Also this is a German Network isn't it? Why aren't there Aryan reporters here?

  8. What a total lie that West struggling to support Ukraine! With 56 trillion, western help is a drop in ocean what Ukrainians asking for European security

  9. Most Republicans in the states are more afraid of Mexicans crossing the border than they are of Ukraine. Frankly they are very pro-Russian and isolationists. They want to close all ties to Europe and over seas altogether.

    If Brexit has an equivalent than Republicans are the US Brexiters.

  10. Stop money funneling through Ukraine. Great job for stopping this madness. Russia and Ukraine should be meet for discussions for peace.

  16. Europeans are always criticizing Americans and at the same time reliant in Americans for their defence.

  18. Russia kept their promises by removing nukes from Cuba and freedom for east germany by unification in retirn west,NATO wont expand and never be close to Russia border.But USA deceived Russia.

  19. Mind you the funding comes from tax payer’s dollars and people don’t want to fund it! Who ever wants to fund it can establish a war fund and whoever wants to contribute to it can do so. Majority of People do not want to be implicated in this and pay for it!

  22. Does Germany have open borders? Anyone or any drugs can come in? Biden used Ukraine to boost the US economy. He never wanted Ukraine to win. If he had, there would have been minimal restrictions on US advanced weapons and the only restrictions on their use would have military targets only.

  26. 1:33 "Is there any point to these negotiations. Is there anything that would make Republican's change there minds?" As close as I've heard to this being called out as a stall tactic. Republicans aren't being called out. I don't understand why. Not only is this probably just a stall tactic… but even if it wasn't, wouldn't their political opponents score more points by calling it a stall tactic?

  27. Why is there no proper boarder in the USA? who are the Democrats trying to appeal to by not instigating this? I'm very pro Ukraine, but hey, USA needs boarder controls

  28. There is no risk at all because the corrupt Ukrainian President and his cronies can simply give back the embezzled money. The US gave Ukraine more than $110 billion dollars already and most of that money were embezzled by Zelenskyy and his cronies.

  29. disgrace blocking help to ukraine. GIVE them the weapoms to WIN the war NOT trickle just enough in to perpetuate the war.
    Ukraines paying in blood and people are complaining about money?

  31. The biggest problem the European Commission EU and Deutschland have they are depending on the Americans and US dollars and British and their trade partners to stay united with them long enough to ensure the Ukrainians lose control of their borders money and laws and except the precedence of EU law in the Ukrainian parliament when only America can unite Ukraine with Federal Government excluding Crimea with our American Good Friday agreement reforms and America and Russia have no demands with the Ukrainians only to unite their country that only they can agree to do .by agreement with Ukraine .

    The EU EC and Germans had their opportunity to demand Federal Government , language and citizenship reforms in 2014 and would of included Donbass and now the Russians and Americans will not make that mistake with the Ukrainians after 10 years and will they will not be demanding that Ukraine loses control of their borders , money and laws or the precedence of the US Congress or Russian Duma above the laws of the Ukraine Rada in Kyiv-Kiev ……

  39. With U.S. and European aid to Ukraine now in serious jeopardy, the Biden administration and European officials are quietly shifting their focus from supporting Ukraine’s goal of total victory over Russia to improving its position in an eventual negotiation to end the war, according to a Biden administration official and a European diplomat based in Washington. Such a negotiation would likely mean giving up parts of Ukraine to Russia.

  40. Republicans are the only ones against helping Ukraine. It used to just be the MAGA far-right Republicans but now it's all of the Republican congress. Trump is pro-Putin and says he'll end the war by giving Ukraine land to Russia if he gets elected. It's crazy here in the US. I grew up with a strong America that ALWAYS stood for democracy but with these new far-raight Republicans, our country might fall to autocracy. The far-right nationalism of the Republicans is breaking America.

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