Denys Shmyhal expressed “cautious optimism” that US lawmakers would move the hotly contested measure, which has $61bn (£49bn) earmarked for Kyiv.
The Home of Representatives is ready to vote on the bundle this Saturday.
The proposal consists of funding for Israel in addition to the Indo-Pacific.
Chatting with the BBC in Washington DC on Wednesday, Prime Minister Shmyhal stated of the US safety help: “We’d like this cash yesterday, not tomorrow, not immediately.”
“If we is not going to defend… Ukraine will fall,” he added. “So the worldwide, the worldwide system of safety will probably be destroyed… and all of the world might want to discover… a brand new system of safety.
“Or, there will probably be many conflicts, many such sorts of wars, and ultimately of the day, it might result in the Third World Battle.”
This isn’t the primary time Ukraine has issued such an alarming warning in regards to the penalties of its potential defeat.
Final yr, President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that if Russia gained the battle, it might subsequent invade Poland, triggering World Battle Three.
However Kremlin officers have ridiculed such claims as Western scaremongering. Final month President Vladimir Putin dismissed recommendations that Russia would possibly at some point assault Jap Europe as “full nonsense”.
Russia has by no means attacked a rustic inside Nato, which incorporates Poland. Nato’s collective defence pact implies that an assault on one member constitutes an assault on all.
In Wednesday’s interview, Prime Minister Shmyhal was requested a few latest declare by Republican Home International Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul that members of his personal occasion had been being “contaminated” by Russian propaganda.
Mr Shmyhal stated: “We must always perceive that disinformation and propaganda is influencing right here in the USA on many individuals, in European Union on many individuals, resembling in Ukraine.”
Opposition from the best wing of the Republican occasion has blocked potential help to Ukraine for months.
A few of these lawmakers have objected to sending tens of billions of {dollars} in assist abroad, with out first passing funds for US-Mexico border safety.
These conservatives have additionally dismissed as smears any suggestion that they could possibly be Kremlin dupes.
President Joe Biden stated in a press release on Wednesday he would signal the bundle into regulation instantly as soon as handed by Congress “to ship a message to the world: We stand with our pals”.
Ukraine is critically depending on weapon provides from the US and the West to maintain preventing Russia, which has superior numbers and an abundance of artillery ammunition.
Months of congressional deadlock have already had profound results on the battlefield.
Ukraine has discovered itself outmanned and outgunned and compelled into retreat due to ammunition rationing and falling morale.
In February, it retreated from Avdiivka, a city close to occupied Donetsk that it had held because the battle started in 2014.
Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, a normal overseeing the withdrawal, cited a 10-to-one artillery ammunition benefit for his enemies and stated pulling again after months of preventing was “the one appropriate resolution”.
President Zelensky blamed an “synthetic deficit of weapons” as he made pressing appeals for extra army assist to keep away from a “catastrophic” scenario.
President Biden has cited “dwindling provides on account of congressional inaction” as a motive for the retreat.
Avdiivka’s loss was the heaviest for Ukraine since its troops pulled out of Bakhmut in Might 2023.
Each got here after months of attritional warfare through which Russian forces levelled buildings with massed artillery and poured waves of troops into the frontline.
Basic Sir Richard Barrons, a former commander of the UK’s Joint Forces Command, lately acknowledged he feared that Ukraine might face defeat this yr except it was given the weapons and ammunition it wanted to safe its strains.
“We’re seeing Russia batter away on the entrance line, using a five-to-one benefit in artillery, ammunition, and a surplus of individuals,” he stated.
“Ukraine could come to really feel it might’t win. And when it will get to that time, why will individuals need to combat and die?”
Each side have suffered heavy losses within the battles however mounting casualties have left Ukraine, not like Russia, with a scarcity of manpower.
The federal government earlier this month lowered the age of conscription from 27 to 25 in an effort to boost lots of of hundreds of recent recruits.
President Zelensky has stated 31,000 Ukrainian troopers have been killed since 2022. US officers, nonetheless, consider not less than 70,000 have died and plenty of extra are injured.
A BBC investigation calculates that not less than 50,000 Russian troops have been killed. Tens of hundreds are believed to have been injured.
Russia has reworked its industrial base right into a wartime economic system – spending 40% of its nationwide funds on armaments whereas placing offers with Iran and North Korea for ammunition, missiles and drones. (Supply: BBC)
