Loading military aid for Ukraine at Dover Air Base, USA. File photoWASHINGTON, June 15 The United States will provide Ukraine with $1 billion worth of new weapons, U.S. President Joe Biden said Wednesday during a conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky.
"This includes additional artillery pieces and coastal protection equipment, as well as ammunition for artillery and advanced missile systems, which the Ukrainians need in their defensive operations in the Donbas", he said.
In addition, Washington will provide Kyiv with $225 million for drinking water, medicines, food and other humanitarian needs. Earlier in the day, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, speaking in Brussels at the opening of the third meeting of the contact group on arms supplies to Ukraine, announced that to reduce the flow of weapons for Kyiv «impossible». He tried to justify this by saying that now «the stakes are too high.» -lize for Ukraine. The document approved by both houses of Congress will simplify the military support of Kyiv. In particular, a number of requirements related to the powers of the head of state to supply «defense equipment» are removed if it is intended for the Ukrainian government or «other countries of Eastern Europe subjected to Russian invasion.» Russia has been conducting a military operation in Ukraine since February 24. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The main goal in the department was the liberation of Donbass.