Last Saturday brought good news for the Ukrainian government. The US House of Representatives voted in favour of a $61bn (£49bn) aid package for Kyiv, which will be used to arm its military.
The House also approved a bill that will allow the seizure and transfer to Ukraine of Russian assets frozen in America. The bills now move to the Senate for approval.
Unsurprisingly, this did not go down well in Moscow.
Hawkish former President Dmitry Medvedev condemned the "61 billion bloody dollars". He called for a new American Civil War that "would finally lead to the inglorious break up of the 21st Century's evil empire, the United States of America".
Moscow's messaging is clear: there is no panic. But there is concern. The aid package can help Ukraine and hurt Russia.
Monday's edition of daily newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets predicts Ukrainian strikes in the near future, "deep into [Russian] territory. But, most likely, on Crimea. And, of course, on the Crimean bridge".
That bridge, linking the Russian mainland to the annexed Crimean peninsula, is a key target for Ukraine and has been attacked before.
