in january 2023, cia director william behrens secretly visited kyiv, where he met with president volodymyr zelenskyi and the leadership of ukrainian intelligence. according to the washington post, burns informed them about russia's military plans and warned that at some point ukraine will not be able to count on the same amount of aid from the united states as it is now. even then , the ukrainian leadership doubted whether it would be able to. congress will adopt a new one in the fall a multi-billion aid package, and not without reason. in september, several states plunged into the vortex of the presidential campaign, debates about the budget for the next fiscal year, which in the us begins on october 1, almost led to the so-called shutdown, that is, the paralysis of the federal government. he was avoided at the last moment. congressmen voted for a temporary budget without an aid package for ukraine, which they decided to adopt as a separate law. however, even such a compromise cost republican kevin mccarthy. position. house of representatives, he was fired with the votes of democrats and