every day. i ask all the people who still live in the city. meanwhile the pentagon announces another $800 million military aid package that includes 72 howitzers, 144,000 artillery rounds, 72 tactical vehicles, and more than 121 ghost drones. president zelenskyy s chief of staffer mac says in an exclusive interview with fox news more is needed because the stakes couldn t be higher. it s not just war in ukraine. it s the war against the democracy. it s the war for the freedom. and gillian, the u.n. secretary general once to give diplomacy another try. he will travel to moscow early next week and meet with vladimir putin but expectations for a significant breakthrough and peace talk us from very low.
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witsers, and 144,000 rounds of ammunition to go with those. it also includes more tactical drones. in the past two months we moved weapons and equipment to ukraine at record speed. we ve sent thousands of anti-armor and anti-missile helicopters, drones, grenade launchers, machine guns, launchers, radar systems, more than 1,500 rounds of ammunition are to be sent. the united states alone has provided ten anti-armor systems for every one russian tank that s in ukraine, a 10-to-1 ratio. we ll continue to share significant timely intelligence with ukraine to help defend them against russian aggression. on top of this, these district contributions from the united states are facilitating the flow of systems to ukraine from other allies and partners around the world, like the s 300 long range anti-aircraft systems that slovakia recently transferred to
the country, number one, and number two, make sure we continue to maintain the economic sanctions, which, over time, and we re beginning to see, are devastating their economy and their ability to move forward. so most important thing right now is maintaining unity. so far, so good. thank you very much. there you heard president biden announce another $800 million in weaponry and military aid to help ukraine, as it enters what he describes as the next phase in this war. this weaponry, he says, will be tailored for the battle that comes ahead. i want to bring in jim sciutto. jim, some of what is in this new package has been in your reporting, $1.6 billion in the last few weeks going into ukraine, here he described this heavily artillery, howitzers. 144,000 rounds of ammunition. arlette to take a beat for a
important things president biden said from ukrainian perspective is this new $800 million package is not a generic military package. it is closely tailored to what ukraine needs for this new fight in the east. he said it is responsive to what the ukrainian military needs for a battle that they say is going to look more like the second world war, large formations of tanks and artillery going up against each other. one number that jumped out at me, jose. the president said the u.s. will be providing 144,000 rounds of badly needed artillery ammunition. that s about four times as much as was provided in the last military aid package. that will last the ukrainian military at this current intense rate of fighting three weeks or more, which, you know, isn t a lot, but is enough to keep them going for the moment. president zelenskyy said overnight that he was cautiously optimistic that the united states and its allies not only