Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview with US television that the vote showed Ukraine would not be "a second Afghanistan", whose pro-western government collapsed in the summer of 2021 during an American-led pullout.
The Ukrainian president urged the US Senate to ratify the aid package rapidly and warned that his country was preparing its defences, fearing there could be a large Russian offensive before the fresh supplies reach the frontline.
"We really need to get this to the final point. We need to get it approved by the Senate ... so that we get some tangible assistance for the soldiers on the frontline as soon as possible, not in another six months," he said.
The Senate is expected to come out of recess tomorrow to hold its first vote on the package - similar to one it had already voted for in February - with the US president, Joe Biden, promising to sign it into law swiftly after it passes Congress.
That would end months of wrangling in which Donald Trump-aligned Republicans in the House had refused to allow Ukraine aid, and which was part of a larger aid package with money for Israel and Taiwan, to be debated in the lower chamber.
The US has only been able to commit $300m of military aid to Ukraine this year, after the budget previously authorised by Congress was spent, leading to deterioration of the frontline position and the loss of Avdiivka in Donbas because of a shortage of artillery and other munitions.
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