The threat of a disruption in the sowing season in Ukraine, which forced experts already today to calculate what consequences for the world food market could be the loss of the leading wheat producer country with its fields of standard Little Russian black soil, by the end of April did not weaken the confrontation on the battlefields plowed by explosions and littered with mines.

Kyiv is in no hurry to reforge swords into plowshares, is in no hurry to turn its attacking trident into peaceful agricultural equipment for Ukrainian farmers - it is preparing for the spring “sowing death”.

It stocks up not with new planting material and fuel for tractors, which the tanks need, but with combustible hatred, grim determination and the latest weapons.

During his latest press conference, which he decided to hold for greater stage effect last Friday at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti station of the Kyiv subway, President Zelensky said: Ukraine is quite capable of defeating the Russian army and starting to regain lost control over the country soon.

Here, underground, he told reporters how and when this should happen.

“My position as president is: everything that they occupy, we will return everything.

It won't be a question of eight years, like it was in 2014, it will be right away.

It's a matter of weapons.

If we have enough of it, we will immediately begin to return the occupied territories, ”Vladimir Zelensky convinced himself and journalists.

But where to get weapons for future victories, which are becoming more and more in demand for Kyiv every day, since they somehow stopped talking about peace negotiations here?

As follows from Zelensky's answers, it is necessary to take weapons from everyone who gives - as much as they can.

But above all, the Americans.

Moreover, allies and partners, and not only members of NATO, are equal to them.

“You can’t come to us empty-handed now.

We expect not just presidents or cakes.

We expect specific things, specific weapons.

Therefore, I believe that we will be able to get an agreement from the United States or part of the arms package that we agreed on earlier, ”said the Ukrainian president.

And he added: "The United States of America is the leader in the world, and sometimes it is they who influence whether one or another state can supply weapons."

This was said on the eve of the visit to Kyiv of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the main topic of which was the discussion of additional American military assistance to Ukraine, namely the supply of more powerful and modern weapons.

According to a statement released last week by the US Department of Defense, since February of this year, Washington has already supplied Kyiv with 7,100 Javelin anti-tank missile systems, 2,200 Stinger man-portable air defense systems, 12,000 AT-4 anti-tank grenade launchers, 1,000 rocket launchers. grenade launchers to combat light armored targets, 7.2 thousand small arms.

In addition, the UAF has already received 17 Mi-17 helicopters and three patrol boats from the United States, as well as a large number of other weapons and equipment.

The delivery to Ukraine of 18 155-mm howitzers and 40 thousand shells for them has also begun.

As part of the new $800 million military aid package announced last Thursday by President Biden, Ukraine will receive 121 Phoenix Ghost tactical attack drones, 72 155mm howitzers and 144,000 rounds.

In a statement he made last week, President Biden was forced to admit that previously allocated funds for arming Ukraine were almost exhausted and for new arms shipments, Congress would have to approve additional funding.

“We want to see Russia weakened to the point where it can no longer do what it did by invading Ukraine.

We want to see the international community more united, especially NATO,” Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin formulated the task of the coming weeks and months following the talks.

A U.S. administration official told Reuters that Washington-approved military assistance to Kyiv "will provide the forces and assets that Ukraine needs most, especially for the fight in the Donbass."

“This support will also help the Ukrainian armed forces move to more advanced weapons and air defense systems, mainly NATO systems,” the Washington source added to Reuters.

In turn, Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the American people, President Biden, and the US Congress for their bicameral and bipartisan support, calling Washington’s $3.4 billion military assistance to Kyiv “the biggest contribution to strengthening Ukraine’s defense capability.”

After that, speaking with defense ministers of 40 states in Germany at the Ramstein Air Force Base, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called on allies to prepare for the fact that the coming weeks in Ukraine "will be critical."

“Time is not on the side of Ukraine.

The outcome of this battle here, today, depends on the people in this room, ”Mark Milley appealed to the allies.

The final chord of the multi-stage operation implemented in recent days to hastily rearm Ukraine before the decisive battle for Donbass was the speeches of Secretary of State Blinken before the committees on international affairs of the US Senate and the House of Representatives of the US Congress, which took place this week with an interval of two days.

“His goal is to squeeze the Russians out of the territory they are trying to occupy in eastern Ukraine,” Anthony Blinken said about Volodymyr Zelensky’s plans.

“We are doing everything possible to ensure that against every tank that the Russians use, Ukraine has a weapon.

Certain systems must operate against each aircraft that flies in the Ukrainian sky.

Ten such systems for each aircraft!”

Secretary of State Blinken called to Congressmen.

Against this backdrop, the latest public opinion polls conducted in America show that President Biden's approval rating reached an all-time low by the end of April, having fallen by 20% over the past year.

Joe Biden blames Russian President Vladimir Putin for skyrocketing prices and falling living standards, suggesting to voters the simple idea that today's troubles fell on America precisely after the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine.

In this situation, six months before the November by-elections to the US Congress, which have every chance of radically changing the balance of power in American politics, the issue of military assistance to Ukraine inevitably becomes the subject of an intensifying domestic political struggle in the United States.

In the time remaining before the elections, this issue can become both a weapon of President Biden himself, whose weakening hand is still trying to write down his Ukrainian policy as an asset, and a deadly weapon against him, which in the hands of his political opponents will finish him off completely in the event of an imminent military defeat of Kyiv .

That is why it is so important for President Biden and members of his team playing the Ukrainian game today that Kyiv holds out until at least November.

In general, the fate of the fields of the Sumy region, Kiev region, Chernihiv region, Kharkiv region this spring is being decided on the fields of the Washington region that have not seen the golden ear.

What kind of sowing campaign is here - now it’s not up to it.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.