Credit: <\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\nThe White House is warning that if new money isn\u2019t provided by year\u2019s end it will have swift consequences for Ukraine\u2019s capacity to hold its territory, let alone take back land captured by Russia.<\/p>\n
Meeting with Zelensky in the Oval Office, Biden said, \u201cMr President, I call on Congress to do the right thing, to stand with Ukraine, and to stand up for freedom.\u201d He added, \u201cCongress needs to pass the supplemental funding for Ukraine before they break for the holiday recess, before they give Putin the greatest Christmas gift they could possibly give him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zelensky made his own case during his brief White House appearance with Biden and his private meetings with congressional leaders \u2013 that Ukrainian forces have fought fiercely to push back the Russian invasion with the help of American and other Western allies and it\u2019s no time for Ukraine\u2019s friends to step back.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fight we\u2019re in is a fight for freedom,\u201d Zelensky repeatedly said in the meetings, according to politicians.<\/p>\n
Flanked by Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Zelensky entered a private meeting with senators with a public bipartisan show of support and to some applause. But more than an hour later few senators\u2019 minds appeared changed.<\/p>\n
Schumer called it a \u201cvery powerful\u201d meeting, but gave no update on stalled negotiations.<\/p>\n
Zelensky also visited the House leaders, including privately with new Speaker Mike Johnson, whose hard-right Republicans have been the most resistance to any deal. Johnson insisted afterward: \u201cWe do want to do the right thing here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The White House said the time was right for Zelensky\u2019s trip to Washington as Biden pushes politicians approve the aid package before the year-end holidays. A top spokesman said the US can\u2019t let Ukraine aid lapse, especially as the Israel-Hamas war takes attention, and that the president was willing to make compromises with Republicans.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis additional funding will absolutely help Ukraine claw back even more of their territory and kick the Russians right out of Ukraine,\u201d said the White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on NBC.<\/p>\n
However, prospects for a congressional deal on Ukraine funding seemed all but out of reach.<\/p>\n
Zelensky impressed on the senators that Ukraine could win the war against Russia, telling them he was drafting men in their 30s and 40s in a show of strength for the battle. In his trademark olive drab, he stood before a portrait of George Washington, history hanging behind him.<\/p>\n
To the House Democrats, he showcased his country\u2019s embrace of the West by pointing to the Christmas season, telling them it was the first year Ukraine would celebrate on December 25 rather than January 7, when Russians mark the holiday.<\/p>\n
McConnell said afterward Zelensky was \u201cinspirational and determined\u201d.<\/p>\n
Biden has expressed a willingness to engage with the Republicans as migrant crossings have hit record highs along the US-Mexico border, but Democrats in his own party oppose proposals for expedited deportations and strict asylum standards as a return to Trump-era hostility towards migrants.<\/p>\n
With talks at a standstill, one chief Republican negotiator, Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma, said there was nothing Zelensky could say during his visit with the senators to sway the outcome.<\/p>\n
Ahead of Zelensky\u2019s high-stakes meetings, the White House late Monday pointed to newly declassified intelligence that shows Ukraine has inflicted heavy losses on Russia in recent fighting along the Avdiivka-Novopavlivka axis \u2013 including 13,000 casualties and over 220 combat vehicle losses. The Ukrainian holdout in the country\u2019s partly occupied east has been the centre of some of the fiercest fighting in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
US intelligence officials have determined that the Russians think if they can achieve a military deadlock through the winter it will drain Western support for Ukraine and ultimately give Russia the advantage, despite the fact that Russians have sustained heavy losses and have been slowed by persistent shortages of trained personnel, munitions and equipment.<\/p>\n
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