"The Tyrants" will have to pay, US President Joe Biden warned, after Washington announced a $20 billion loan to Ukraine, which will be guaranteed by the interest on frozen Russian assets, AFP reported, quoted by BTA.
"Tyrants will be held accountable for the damage they cause,", Biden said two weeks before the upcoming US election.
In June, the G7 decided to use interest generated by frozen Russian assets to guarantee a loan totaling $50 billion to Ukraine. Washington will provide 20 billion of them, AFP recalls.
As part of this program, "the United States is announcing that it will provide Ukraine with $20 billion in loans that will be repaid from interest generated by frozen Russian government assets," Joe Biden said. In this way, he stressed, "Ukraine can get the help it needs right away without taxpayers having to pay.
According to the president from the Democratic Party, this is "another reminder to Vladimir Putin that the world is united behind Ukraine".
This warning is all the more important given that the United States presidential election is less than two weeks away. Former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump regularly criticizes the amount of US aid to Ukraine, which he says is too high. Kiev fears that if he returns to the White House, the funds will stop, recalls AFP. His Democratic challenger, Vice President Kamala Harris, even said Monday that her "opponent admired dictators and autocrats around the world" and warned that "if Donald Trump were president, Vladimir Putin would be sitting in Kiev".