we need to help ukrainians in every way we can. madam secretary, everyone is wary of world war iii. on capitol hill, now more and more lawmakers. it seems to be said that they are tired of giving putin the upper hand here. at least publicly. here is senator mitt romney. president putin has actually said the things that we are doing our provocative. he s already said that the sanctions we put in place are like declaring war. he will continue saying that. we are fearful of provoking him. it is time for him to be fearful of us. as our way to flip the script here? i think we ve already started to flip that script, brett. $1.2 billion in security assistance, antitank, anti-armor, anti-aircraft is really helping ukraine to resist what your reporter said is a army of russia where putin very badly miscalculated how this war
attacking their people and defend ukrainian air space, and the request of president zelenskyy, identified and are helping ukraine acquire additional longer range anti-aircraft systems and munitions for those systems. new assistance package, 9,000 anti-armor systems. portable high accurate shoulder-mounted missiles the ukrainian forces have been using with great effect to destroy invading tanks and armored vehicles. include 7,000 small arms, machine guns, shotguns, grenade launchers to equip the ukrainians, including the brave women and men defending their cities as civilians and around the countryside as well, and as well as the ammunition, artillery and mortar rounds to go with small arms, 20 million rounds in total. this will include drones, which
day. we re also continuing to close corporations with allies and partners to make sure that close cooperation we continue to have, ukrainian people are able to defend their own nation. the united states has sent more than $1 billion in security assistance to ukraine over the last year, including anti-armor, and anti-air capabilities taking out tanks and planes and helicopters. new shipments arriving every day. we, the united states, are also facilitating significant shipments of security assistance from our allies and partners to ukraine. and the humanitarian front, we re working closely with the u.n. and humanitarian organizations to support the people of ukraine who have been displaced by the violence in ukraine. we re providing tens of thousands of tons of humanitarian supplies, food, water, medicines, coming via truck and train every single day. yesterday, in poland, vice
mister biden is expected to announce over $1 billion in new military aid to ukraine on wednesday. the security assistance will include military equipment such as anti- armor and at the air weapons, the funding coming fro the over $13 billion bill passe by congressional lawmakers and signed by the white house this week. frustrated by increasing the sanctions, vladimir putin is no targeting president biden and his son hunter and various members of the cabinet and the administration and for what it worth, even hillary clinton. senior correspondent were in gold digging into the details tonight. kevin, what we take a look a this list you can see the move is clearly personal. this one detail that may have been overlooked. the white house pointed out tha moscow may sanction the wrong joe biden. i first note that he is a junior so they may have
support the transfer of the fighters to the ukrainian air force at this time and have no desire to see them in our custody either. let s walk you through the reasons for this. first, we believe the best way to support ukrainian defense is by providing them the weapons and the systems that they need most to defeat russian aggression, in particular anti-armor and air defense. we, along with other nations continue to send them these weapons and we know they re being used with great effect. slowed russian advance in the north and the contested airspace over ukraine is evidence alone of that. although russian air capabilities are significant, their effectiveness haas been limited due to ukrainian operational ground-based systems. surface to air missiles and manpats. secondly, the ukrainian air force has several squadroned of fully capable aircraft.