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US President Joe Biden called on his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to stop complaining that Washington was not providing enough assistance to Kiev, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing a former White House official.

The source told the paper that at an early stage of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, Zelensky had urged the United States and other Western countries to send more weapons and impose harsher sanctions against Russia, despite unprecedented amounts of aid and advanced weapons already being supplied to Kiev by Biden and Congress, TASS reported.

However, Biden warned Zelensky that it would be hard for him to keep asking Congress for money if the Ukrainian leader appeared ungrateful and kept saying that the assistance was not enough, the newspaper writes.

Earlier this month, Biden signed a new bill on financing the US government through December 16, 2022, that also envisages $12.4 billion in aid to Ukraine. The latest package includes $4.5 billion in economic assistance to Kiev.