WASHINGTON — The White House plans to rush billions of dollars in security assistance to Ukraine before US President Joe Biden leaves office in January 2025, sources said on Nov 6, hoping to shore up the government in Kyiv before president-elect Donald Trump's Jan 20 inauguration.

"The administration plans to push forward... to put Ukraine in the strongest position possible" a senior administration official said on condition of anonymity, before its term ends in January.

Trump has been critical of Biden's assistance for Ukraine, fuelling concern about the future of support for President Volodomyr Zelensky's government under a Republican-controlled White House, Senate and possibly the House of Representatives.

The House has been narrowly controlled by Republicans since January 2023, and it was not clear by the afternoon of Nov 6 whether the party had won enough seats in the elections to keep Democrats from winning a slim majority.

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