The US Senate has developed a new bill on support for Ukraine, which provides for the allocation of 54.6 billion dollars over the next two years. About this informs New York Times.
About a third of the total amount of aid is proposed to be financed from confiscated Russian assets and from arms sales to European allies. On the website of the Committee on International Relations of the US Senate specified, that the authors of the legislative initiative were Senators Jean Shaheen (Democratic Party) and Lisa Merkawski (Republican Party).
“The Ukraine Support Act of 2025 complements the Graham-Blumenthal sanctions bill aimed at imposing devastating sanctions on the Russian economy. Together, these two pieces of legislation demonstrate the bipartisan determination of Congress and the American people to deal a crushing blow to Russia’s economy and support Ukraine’s courageous military resistance – making it clear to Putin that he cannot drag out this war in hopes of American withdrawal from the support of Kyiv”, – says the explanatory note.
The text of the draft law provides for the allocation of 30 billion dollars for security assistance to Ukraine over the next two fiscal years. In addition, it is proposed to expand to 6 billion dollars the amount of weapons that US President Donald Trump can transfer from the arsenals of the US Armed Forces without prior approval from Congress within the limits of presidential authority (PDA).
The package also includes funding to replenish American defense stocks and purchase new weapons to replace those already transferred to Ukraine. A separate item of the draft law concerns the restoration of the interagency working group on identifying the assets of Russian oligarchs, which was abolished by the Trump administration in February 2025.
The document obliges the president to either immediately take steps to confiscate the frozen Russian assets, or provide a plan for obtaining profits from them – in particular, through investment or income taxation – in order to direct these funds to support Ukraine.
