systems, 5,000 anti-armor systems, 45,000 sets of body armor, and 50 million rounds of ammunition. but president zelenskyy told 60 minutes that the future of the war rests on whether more weapons can be sent. translator: it all depends on how fast we will be helped by the united states. to be honest, whether we will be able to survive depends on this. i have 100% confidence in our people and in our armed forces, but unfortunately, i don t have the confidence that we will be receiving everything that we need. this morning, the russian assault has begun in eastern ukraine. british intelligence is reporting heavy shelling in the regions of donetsk and luhansk. this is new video showing what s left after russian forces bombed a small farming village in the area. one of several civilian targets
war? the united states has sent well more than a billion dollars worth of stingers, javelins, drones, of anti-armor, and anti-air weapons. i ve been in multiple classified briefings the last month i ve seen no strong empirical evidence that there s any equipment that ukraine needs that they are trained to use that the united states is not working to provide them. bryan: so you don t think they need more s-300 s or patriot missile systems or conventional war that kind of equipment right now? ukraine has been clear they absolutely need more weapons and the united states has been clear we re sending them. bryan: it s been four to six days is what we re seeing in terms of the shipments trying to get weapons there. is that the kind of timeline we re experiencing here? can we try to bring that timeline down? they re acting with a sense of urgency. obviously the russians could attack here in maybe a week s time, a month s time.
as you just mentioned. that is because the expectation is that russia right now are refitting, readying themselves for the next phase of this campaign. we re already seeing the very early, early stages of that in the eastern part of the country. but that they will then focus on that eastern part of the country with a new a new phase of the campaign that will include air launch long-range systems, air strikes, cruise missile strikes. the kinds of thing that ukraine needs more systems to defend against. in addition to that they re asking for more anti-aircraft. so things to take out russian helicopters like the stingers that we ve heard. there is an expectation that we ll see a lot of russian tanks used again, as we did around kyiv, as we did around kharkiv. that s why the u.s. and other nations are still sending some of these anti-armor, anti-tank weapons like the javelins, chuck. i want to play something else that general milley said today while testifying on capitol hill. take a l
second, the united states continues to work at an unprecedented pace to help ukraine defend itself. last friday the department of defense announced $300 million in new security assistance. on tuesday, i authorized an additional $100 million to meet ukraine s urgent needs for more javelin anti-armor systems. this will bring total u.s. security assistance to ukraine since the beginning of russia s invasion in february to over $1.7 billion. and over $2.4 billion since january of last year. more than 30 countries have joined us in delivering security assistance to ukraine. aid that our ukrainian partners are putting to very effective use as we see in the kremlin s retreat from kyiv and other ukrainian cities and towns. today, i met again with my colleague and friend, ukraine s foreign minister, to discuss how we can continue to provide ukraine s greatest defenders with what they need to keep pushing russia back.