kaitlan collins, the white house still isn t giving ukraine what they need most. reporter: president biden responding directly to president zele zelenskyy s request for his besieged nation. that brings the total assistance to ukraine $1 billion just this week. reporter: biden announcing the u.s. will send hundreds of millions in new military aid to help fend off the russian invasion. it includes 800 antiaircraft systems, and at the request of volodymyr zelenskyy we are helping identify and providing longer systems. reporter: he stopped short of responding to extendky s request for a no-fly zone. he ll send equipment in instead. in commending zelenskyy for his courage in the face of brutal russian aggression. putin is inflicting appalling
them with no guarantee they re going to increase their rate doesn t seem like the right decision. are you concerned they won t maximize the use of the planes if they get them? are you confident they can fly these polish migs? i havebeen told they know how to fly them. they ve been trained by the united states. with respect to any other reservations, we didn t hear those from president zelenskyy, so we ought to be resourcing him and his commanders to what they feel like they need in order to get this done. but the bigger picture here is not just about aircraft. it s about ensuring that they have battle space dominance. right now the battle space is the air. as long as russia has control of the air, it s going to be near impossible i m told for ukraine
devastation and horror on ukraine, bombing apartment buildings, maternity wards, hospitals. reporter: hours earlier zelenskyy delivered a direct and emotional appeal and a historic address to congress. translator: russia has turned the ukrainian sky into a source of death for thousands of people. reporter: zelenskyy pleading with u.s. lawmakers, calling for help from all u.s. politicians and closing the skies. reporter: to create a no-fly zone over ukraine, is this too much to ask? something that russia would not be able to terrorize our free cities. reporter: zelenskyy showing a video highlighting how ukraine has changed drastically in the last three weeks, zelenskyy even
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against this terror. reporter: now, dana, the appeal from zelenskyy on a no-fly zoe, they know they re never going to get that. what they need is service missiles, long-range ones that can take out russian aircraft and other missiles that are coming in that would allow them relief from being bombarded from the air. there s every chance coming from the pentagon there may be some supplies of those coming in, if not directly from the united states, then from elsewhere, particularly the s-300, the old russian antiaircraft missile systems. dana? thank you. a lot of progressive democratically women in that part of the world. thank you for bringing us one of them. president biden offered $800 million in assistance to ukraine for a total of a billion dollars. it s a lot of help, but as