The document still has to be approved by the Senate and signed by President Trump. The House of Representatives of the US Congress voted to provide $ 350 million to help Ukraine in the field of security and significantly expanded its direction. This is reported by the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States on its Facebook page. "The House of Representatives of the US Congress approved the bill on the" US budget for 2018 for national defense needs, "which allows the allocation of $ 350 million to provide assistance to Ukraine in the field of security. This amount corresponds to last year's level of appropriations, "the message says.. Ukrainian diplomats noted that the draft law also gives permission for Ukraine to provide lethal weapons of a defensive nature. In addition, the document includes new provisions that allow the use of the US defense budget for rehabilitation in the medical institutions of the country wounded Ukrainian military, training and training of Ukrainian medical specialists in this field, as well as to strengthen the ability of the air and naval forces of our state. "For the first time at the legislative level, it is proposed to provide Ukraine with such defensive means: radar air defense and surveillance over the surface situation, naval mine action vehicles, ships of coastal action and coast guard," the Ukrainian embassy. For the document to come into force, it still has to be approved by the Senate.

After that, he will be handed over for signature to US President Donald Trump. As reported by the correspondent. net, in 2018, $ 700 billion will be allocated to the defense needs of the United States, which is 26.1 billion more than the official request of the president. The bill also approved the allocation of 4.6 billion dollars to counter Russia in Europe and $ 100 million to help Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to repel Russian aggression.

Original article: The US Congress approved the allocation of $ 350 million to Kiev.