NEW YORK (PIX11) -- It was a weekend of demonstrations and fundraisers in support of Ukraine on the second anniversary of the Russian invasion.
But yet a crucial aid package of $60 billion is still very much up in the air. Sen. Chuck Schumer, just back from a trip to Ukraine, said everyone from President Zelensky on down made the point very clear.
They said if Ukraine gets the aid, they will win and beat Russia, but if they don’t, they will surely lose the war.
“Ukrainians are not asking Americans to come there and lose their lives,” Schumer said at a news conference. “They are just asking for armaments so they can fight the battle."
Schumer, surrounded by Ukrainian New York leaders, called on House Speaker Mike Johnson to visit Ukraine for himself and stop stalling a critical aid package needed to ensure US security.
“If we don’t support Ukraine, our allies will turn on us,” the Democratic senator said. “If we don’t give the aid to Ukraine, dictators, vicious dictators, will hurt us,” he added.
At the Ukrainian Institute of America, at an exhibit of fallen artists who died in the last two years because of the Russian invasion, many Ukrainian New Yorkers said they hoped the United States would come through with that $60 billion package for Ukraine and soon.
“It is not just for Ukraine; it is for global Democracy,” Antonina Skobina, a Ukrainian New Yorker, told PIX11 News.
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