KYIV, Sept 2 – The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden is asking the U.S. Congress to allocate additional security and economic assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $11.7 billion, as well as $2 billion to help shore up domestic energy supplies to offset impacts of the war on the global energy market, the U.S. edition of The Hill said on Friday.

"We have rallied the world to support the people of Ukraine to defend their democracy and we simply cannot allow that support to Ukraine to run dry," an administration official told reporters.