American disposable hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher. File photoWASHINGTON, May 7.The cost of a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine is up to $150 million, the US administration said. According to the Pentagon, another 25,000 155-mm NATO artillery shells, three AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radars, and electronic warfare equipment will be transferred from its reserves to the Ukrainian military , as well as «field equipment and spare parts.» «The Department of Defense announces <…> additional defense assistance, estimated at up to $150 million… The funds included in the package are selected taking into account the critical Ukrainian needs of the current stage of combat actions as Russian forces continue their offensive in eastern Ukraine,» the press release says. This is the ninth batch of American weapons that has been transferred to Ukraine since August 2021. A total of $4.5 billion has been allocated for these purposes since the beginning of Joe Biden's presidency, including $3.8 billion from February 24, the start of the Russian military special operation. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken added that arms supplies will continue to be combined with financial support for Ukraine , assistance in documenting evidence of war crimes, sanctions pressure on the Russian economy. «Together, these efforts will help strengthen Ukraine's position at the negotiating table and continue to isolate Russia from the world until it stops its senseless war,» Blinken said.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/50a389503d89d21284255c24900946e4.jpg" />The State Department announced «inexhaustible» opportunities for the delivery of weapons to Ukraine. Biden's statement emphasizes that the new aid package has practically exhausted the current supply financing limits. The White House has previously said that they have only $250 million left to provide military assistance to Ukraine. Last week, Biden asked Congress for another $33 billion in arms, economic and humanitarian assistance to this country in the context of the conflict with the Russian Federation. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry, commenting on the idea to conduct an international investigation of war crimes in Ukraine, said that Russia does not trust international investigators. The Russian Federation has repeatedly noted that Kyiv and Western countries turn a blind eye to the crime in Odessa in 2014, as well as to neo-Nazism that is growing in Ukraine. In addition, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation is investigating many cases of crimes against the civilian population and military personnel of the Russian Federation in the Donbass and Ukraine. According to the LPR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, over the eight years of the conflict in the Donbass, the LPR and the DPR have filed more than 3,000 lawsuits about Kyiv’s war crimes with the ECHR and the International Criminal Court. However, the court never started investigating these cases.At the direction of the United States, the Nazis are equipping positions at chemical enterprises in Ukraine
