since russia s invasion last year. latest package includes ammunition for patriot system, missiles for tank system and anti-armor weapons. russian officials say ukrainian drone sparked a fire at an oil refinery overnight, one day after kyiv accused moscow of striking with another drone. joey jones speaking out against all the money the u.s. has been sending to ukraine. joey: we haven t spent enough on a war for safety and security of our homeland. i m sure lindsay and others pining about money to be spent on war, believe this is the way to keep our country safe, is this way to keep our warriors
regret that if the united states started supplying weapons earlier, a lot of innocent lives would ve been saved? so, in 2021, the first year of the biden administration, the united states provided far more lethal assistance, weapons to ukraine than any previous year in u.s. history. javelins, and other critical anti-armor systems to help build the ukrainian defense. and we flowed that assistance, as we are seeing the russian troop, build up in the spring of 2021. and we kept flowing it as we saw the subsequent buildup that actually led to the invasion. now, at the end of the day, anytime a country ends up in the kind of crisis that ukraine did when russia rolled in with its full scale invasion, of course we d want to do more and faster, and get as much as we possibly could into the hands
it s more visible to ukrainians and the rest of us and that has to continue alongside the military fight. i want to bring in arteme kulick, a native ukrainian. you have a question for the national security adviser. yeah, i do. i wanted to ask do you have a regret if the united states has started supplying weapons earlier, a lot of innocent lives would have been saved? so in 2021, the first year of the biden administration, the united states provided far more lethal assistance, weapons to ukraine than in any previous year in u.s. history. javelins and other critical anti-armor systems to help build the ukrainian defense. and we flowed that assistance as we were seeing the russian troop buildup in the spring of 2021 and we kept flowing it as we saw
put the president on a smaller 757. changing the callsign from air force one to special air mission 60. the plane took off from joint base andrews at 4:15 a.m. sunday morning stopping briefly in germany to refuel before turning off its transponder and flying to a polish airbase near the ukrainian border. as the president and a tiny group of aides made their way into ukraine on a heavily guarded gate car train, u.s. surveillance flights kept watch from polish airspace. he arrived in kyiv bearing gifts, a promise of another $450 million worth of military aid, including artillery ammunition, javelin anti-armor missiles, and surveillance radar systems. i thought it was critical that there would not be any doubt, none whatsoever, about u.s. support to ukraine.