Ukraine begs US to send $95bn aid quickly as they brace for Russia's summer offensive.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday (April 21) called for efforts to reduce to a minimum the time between political decisions to provide military aid to Ukraine and enabling the country's soldiers.

"The time between political decisions and inflicting real defeats on the enemy at the front, between the approval of the aid package and providing the strength to our guys - this should be reduced to a minimum," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.

"And this strength is what is truly needed to change the situation at the front."

In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," Zelenskiy said on Sunday the passage of the bill would send a powerful message to Russia that Washington stands by Kyiv and that it would not be "a second Afghanistan."

The U.S. House of Representatives, with broad bipartisan support, passed a $95 billion legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

Aid for Ukraine had been held up for months, because of the opposition of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who urged Republican lawmakers to block it.

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