Former U.S. Congressman Jim Slattery believes that the adoption by the U.S. Senate of the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014 suggests that the United States stands with Ukraine in its struggle against Russian aggression.

He told reporters in Kyiv on Friday that in his opinion, this gesture shows that the U.S. Senate believes in a free and independent Ukraine, as well as the fact that the U.S. Senate stands with Ukraine, and will help it resist Russian aggression.

However, according to Slattery, there is still no agreement between the two houses of the Congress on this act.

He said he was not sure, but believed that the U.S. president would soon receive a mandate to provide assistance to Ukraine over this issue, but added he did not know in what form this assistance would come. Slattery said he did not think that the Senate and the House of Representatives had already reached agreement on the form of this bill to be passed to the president.

However, according to the ex-congressman, despite the fact that this bill was not passed by the Congress as a whole, other laws envisaging assistance to the Ukrainian people were passed earlier.