 got pretty heated under the biden administration the u.s has been a strong backer of ukraine's war effort supplying kiev with 175 billion dollars in emergency support thursday night biden also claimed he's gotten 50 other nations including japan and south korea to support ukraine former president donald trump criticized biden's handling of the conflict saying too much money has been spent trump found thursday to settle the war between russia and ukraine before his inauguration but he did not say how that would be accomplished