Washington: United States on Wednesday launched a new $ 800 million military assistance package for Ukraine, including heavier equipment such as helicopters, howitzers and armored personnel carriers.
President Joe Biden spoke to the Ukrainian partner Volodymyr Zelensky for about an hour at the beginning of the day when Russia focused its efforts to the east, the new front line of the Old War seven weeks.
“The Ukrainian military has used weapons that we provide for a great effect,” Biden said.
“When Russia prepares to intensify her attacks in the Donbas area, the United States will continue to provide Ukraine with the ability to defend,” he added.
“This new assistance package will contain many very effective weapons systems that we have provided and new capabilities that are tailored to the wider attack that we expect Russia launched in East Ukraine.”
Zelensky for his share tweeted that he and Biden have discussed “additional packages of defensive and possible macro-financial assistance.”
New assistance included several heavier equipment which was previously rejected by Washington to provide Kyiv for fear of increasing conflict with nuclear armed Russia.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby released a list of goods in the latest $ 800 million security assistance package for Ukraine.
It includes 185mm Howitzers and 40,000 rounds of artillery, 200 M113 armored personnel carriers, 11 Helicopters 11 MI-17 and 100 armored versatile vehicles.
The package also includes 10 counter-artillery A / TPQ-3G radar, two Radar Sentinel Air Supervisory A / MPQ-64, 300 switchblade drones and 500 Javelin anti-armor missiles.
Unmanned coastal defense vessels, chemical, chemical, chemical and nuclear protective equipment, 30,000 sets of armor and helmets, C-4 explosive materials and anti-personnel mine M18A1 Claymore will also be sent to Ukraine.
“We adjust this list specifically to meet the needs they requested in connection with what happened in East Ukraine,” said Kirby.
Pentagon spokesman said the United States worked with “allies and partners to identify and provide Ukrainians with additional capabilities, abilities that are not in our stock.”
Pentagon number two Kathleen Hicks was caused by Wednesday’s meeting chairs with the head of the main American defense group to accelerate the most widely used weapons production by Ukrainian forces.
Before the latest package, the United States has supplied or promised an anti-aircraft system of Ukraine 1,400 stering, 5,000 javelin, 7,000 other anti-tank weapons, several hundred switchblades, 7,000 rifles, 50 million bullets and various other equipment and various other equipment and various other equipment .