Two days after the United States adopted a draft budget that did not include financial assistance to Ukraine, the European Union announced a shortage of weapons stocks. As the Politico newspaper writes, citing European officials, Brussels said that the EU can no longer continue to allocate weapons to Kyiv from its own reserves.
EU countries “gave everything they could without jeopardizing their own security,” noted Brussels, the newspaper writes.
According to media reports, Western countries have not expanded their production lines enough to meet Kyiv’s demand for weapons. At the same time, the EU assured that it still maintains “strong public and political support” for Ukraine.
The Telegraph newspaper also writes that London has run out of weapons that it can transfer to Kyiv. Great Britain “gave just as much as it could afford,” the media notes.
At the same time, the US administration reported that European weapons stockpiles were “depleting on an industrial scale” after 18 months of intense fighting, and this was to be expected, “given the scale of what was provided to Ukraine.”
The day before, US President Joe Biden approved a draft US budget for 45 days, which did not include assistance to Ukraine. The document was approved immediately after approval by both houses of Congress. The project included only government funding and support for disaster victims, but not assistance to Ukraine.
Previously, the majority in the Senate and the minority in the House of Representatives proposed adopting an interim budget that included $6 billion in aid to Ukraine instead of $24 billion, and extending the work until November 17. However, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy spoke in favor of excluding funds for assistance to Ukraine from this bill. At the same time, the Pentagon warned that “almost all available funding” for security assistance to Ukraine has been exhausted, expressing hope that McCarthy will introduce a separate bill to provide such assistance.
Source: Rosbalt
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