Summary
The decision by U.S. lawmakers to resume military assistance to Ukraine was greeted with a collective sigh of relief. The decision was greeted by an outpouring of gratitude across a battered and bloodied Ukraine. The Ukrainian lieutenant was at a firing position on the eastern front, commanding an artillery unit. Immediately after the vote passed in Congress, Ukrainian citizens took to social media to offer thanks and express joy. “I have tears in my eyes,” Anton Gerashchenko, the founder of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, a research group, said.