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US House of Representatives passes spending bill with $13.6 billion in aid to Ukraine.

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U.S. House members more than doubled the Biden administration's original request for emergency aid for Ukraine, allocating $6.5 billion to the Pentagon for military assistance and $6.6 billion in humanitarian assistance and economic aid to Ukraine amid Russia’s all-out war.

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In a closed-door briefing with journalists, Rustem Umerov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, and Oleksandr Kamyshin, an advisor on Strategic Industries to the President's Office, said that the current production capacity (for this year) of the Ukrainain defense industry is around $35 billion per year.

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