nuclear power station. sam kylie reporting from zaporizhzhia, ukraine. thank you so much. meantime, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says that he is thankful for the latest aid package from the united states. he calls it another step toward defeating the aggressor. the u.s. is providing another $775 million in military aid to ukraine. cnn pentagon correspondent oren lieberman has details on what this latest package includes. reporter: boris and amara, this is the 19th draw down of weapons for ukraine pulled from u.s. inventories. it now means, according to the defense department that the u.s. has committed more than $10 billion in security assistance to ukraine since the beginning of the biden administration. and this has some new equipment, although part of it follows much of what we have seen in the past. the u.s. providing more ammunition for the high mars system, that gps guided artillery rocket system that a senior defense official says proven devastatingly official
cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr reports. reporter: a torrent of chinese aircraft, missiles and ships moved towards taiwan as soon as house speaker nancy pelosi left the island. china marking off areas encircling taiwan where its military is doing more than just drills. taiwan says 68 chinese war planes flew rnaround the taiwan strait friday. tokyo was forced to scramble jets. the u.s. ambassador was summoned. reporters were told that the issue of taiwan is sensitive, taiwan is one of the very few issues that may take china and the united states to conflict or even a war. so extra caution and a sense of
i m rich barnes. it s hard for people to know how much their accident case is worth. let our injury attorneys help you get the best result possible. the barnes firm injury attorneys call one eight hundred, eight million tonight, the biden administration is urging china to tempt down tensions over how speaker nancy pelosi s taiwan trip. white house official john kirby telling me a little while ago there is no need for beijing to be conducting live fire military drills near taiwan. cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr has more on china s provocative response. a torrent of chinese
also tieing this issue to china, which where the u.s. is reliant on for certain technologies and president biden has been trying to wean the u.s. off of that. i think it is a point he ll emphasize as he meets with allies here in korea as well as in japan. now, meanwhile, another incident happening while president biden as president biden arrived here in korea. two u.s. secret service agents aapparently have been sent back to the united states, placed on administrative leave, after they got into an altercation with a cab driver and two other korean nationals, according to a source familiar with the matter. the secret service spokesman saying they have been placed on administrative leave, but they were not this will not impact president biden s security while he is here. jim? jeremy diamond in seoul, thanks so much. more now on the concerns over what north korea could be planning, while president biden is in asia. cnn pentagon correspondent oren lieberman standing by. has the a
more junior military officers, things like day-to-day operational goals, where attack lines are going, and what this tells you, victor, is that putin is sort of uniquely determined to carry out this war as he sees fit, very attached to it. you know, he sees himself as kind of fulfilling a personal destiny here to bring ukraine back into russia. and as a result, as one senior nato official that we spoke to said, you know, he s not listening to his senior military officials, why would you anticipate he would listen to public opinion. victor. some crucial reporting there. thank you very much. the u.s. is expected to keep 100,000 troops stationed in europe for the foreseeable future as russia s aggression in ukraine continues. cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr is with us. what do you know? hi, victor, well, what s going on is nato, and of course along with the united states, is looking at how many troops it needs to keep in europe,