German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, ahead of a visit to Washington on Thursday, said he hopes the US Congress can agree to provide needed financial support for Ukraine and urged western nations to keep up the pressure on Russia. “I very much hope that the USA and the US Congress will soon make a decision to provide the necessary financial support,” Scholz said on Monday after a meeting with the new French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal in Berlin. He said he favoured both the US and Europe making “such a large contribution” that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plan to wait out the West’s support “d…