US announces new arms package for Ukraine

The United States announced another $450 million military aid package to Ukraine on Thursday. to deal with the Russian invasion and that includes the missile system that kyiv had been claiming for weeks.

(Read: War between Russia and Ukraine intensifies with new weapons and military)

The announcement shows Washington’s commitment to Ukraine as it occurs just before the NATO summit in Madrid, the Communications Coordinator of the National Security Council, John Kirby, said at a press conference.

(He is interested in: Ukraine “will need a Marshall plan” for its reconstruction: Scholz)

Kirby explained that the package includes more artillery shells, boats to patrol the waters and an additional number of Himars, a truck-mounted missile system that is capable of firing 70 kilometers away.

The US had already sent four of these Himars systems to Ukrainebut the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, had been demanding the Joe Biden government for weeks to send more.

Zelensky hopes those missiles will help Ukrainian troops in the Lugansk region of eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces are advancing ever closer to the city of Lisichansk.

It is the last major city still under full control of kyiv after almost completely losing control of Severodonetsk. This aid package of 450 million is added to the 1,000 million that Biden announced on June 15.

According to Pentagon data, the US has allocated more than $6 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24.

EFE

More world news

– Video: Police save elderly woman just before train speeds past
– ‘Lightyear’ banned in the United Arab Emirates for a kiss between two women
– The cities with the best quality of life in 2022, according to ‘The Economist’