us officials have indicated that deliveries of munitions and air defence systems are ready to go as soon as there is approval in the senate. a military aid package to item that has been improved. it has also voted to ban the run that cut its ties with china. tiktok. let s speak tour correspondent in washington, helena humphrey. it has been six months in the making. it has been six months in the makinu. ., ., , ,. ., making. now one step closer to aurantin making. now one step closer to granting that making. now one step closer to granting that long-awaited - making. now one step closer to granting that long-awaited aid l making. now one step closer to l granting that long-awaited aid to granting that long awaited aid to ukraine to the tune of some 61 billion us dollars. it happened with much needed bipartisan support. we saw 311 votes in favour. a simple majority was needed, 218 were the votes we needed so it passed with 93 extra votes on its side. we will see it going t
Russia s dominance and because of waning american help, the path ahead looks increasingly unclear whereas this time last year, you had that initial overwhelming full scale invasion where kyiv ultimately held and where ukraine undertook a number of successful counter offensives, setting that president that it can indeed take russia by surprise. what always amazes me is how much is what has changed in such a short space of time. you had eight years of aggression and pockets of fighting, they had a full scale invasion. it is still a total war but you are seeing four to five positions on the russian side notably. you are seeing static fighting, fighting that is no less intense but all the while, you are in ukraine saying that several things need to happen at once that deadlock to be broken. the soldiers who are doing the fighting are
Ukrainian social media channels were alight with celebratory messages as the nation revelled in the first major successes of the much-anticipated counter offensives.