The U.S. Congressional Rules Committee has begun consideration of a bill that would allow Washington to provide Kyiv with weapons and ammunition under an accelerated procedure and bypassing most of the bureaucratic obstacles, the Voice of America reports..

Republican Congressman Dan Muser, in an interview with Voice of America, said that the bill could be put to a vote in the boardroom as early as this week..

" I am sure that my fellow Republicans and, hopefully, Democrats will do the same,” the legislator said..

Earlier, the Senate has already approved the provision of weapons to Ukraine under Lend-Lease agreements.. Ukraine will be able to pay for the supplied weapons not immediately, but over time.

A mirror draft of the law, as required by the rules of the US Congress, was presented in the lower house in early April, but American legislators did not have time to fully take up its consideration before the spring break..

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As previously reported, the Pentagon is looking for new opportunities for US industry to accelerate production and increase capacity to produce effective weapons that require minimal training and can be quickly exported to Ukraine.. The detailed request of the United States Department of Defense refers to a wide range of weapons. In particular, we are talking about military equipment for anti-aircraft, anti-tank, anti-personnel, coastal defense, as well as means of communication, such as radio or satellite Internet..

It was also reported that most of the batch of 90 howitzers had already arrived in Ukraine..