US announces $275M in new military aid for Ukraine
Voice of America
FILE - A High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is fired in an undisclosed location in Ukraine in this image from a social media video uploaded June 24, 2022. The U.S. will soon provide a new military aid package for Ukraine that contains HIMARS ammunition. People lay flowers at a spontaneous memorial to soldiers killed in the war with Russia in Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 23, 2024. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks at damaged to Ukraine's largest printing house, which was hit May 23 in a Russian missile attack that killed seven civilians in Kharkiv, Ukraine, May 24, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) FILE - A sapper inspects fragments of a Russian bomb that hit a living area, injuring 10 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, May 22, 2024. Kyiv is struggling to hold off Russian advances in the Kharkiv region.
The United States will provide a new $275 million military aid package for Ukraine to help the beleaguered country repel Russia’s assault on Kharkiv, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Friday.