Ukraine has become a hostage of the internal political struggle in the United States, where Republicans are delaying military supplies to Kiev, the problem can be solved by the election of the American president, but it is still a long time before them. This opinion was expressed by the mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko in an interview with the American news portal The Daily Beast.

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Klitschko admitted that the Republicans with whom he spoke have concerns about the issue of assistance to Ukraine, but they are "afraid to express them in person." He added that he expects the situation for Ukraine to worsen during the conflict before the American elections in November this year․