every day. i ask all the people who still live in the city. meanwhile the pentagon announces another $800 million military aid package that includes 72 howitzers, 144,000 artillery rounds, 72 tactical vehicles, and more than 121 ghost drones. president zelenskyy s chief of staffer mac says in an exclusive interview with fox news more is needed because the stakes couldn t be higher. it s not just war in ukraine. it s the war against the democracy. it s the war for the freedom. and gillian, the u.n. secretary general once to give diplomacy another try. he will travel to moscow early next week and meet with vladimir putin but expectations for a significant breakthrough and peace talk us from very low.
the united states is sending an additional $1.3 billion in military and humanitarian aid to ukraine. president biden making the announcement at the white house this morning. the u.s. is also speeding up the process to accept up to 100,000 ukrainian refugees. the pentagon revealing the new military aid includes u.s. phoenix ghost drones, which were developed specifically for the ukrainian military. state department spokesperson ned price joins us here live this hour. and we re live in florida, where in just the past 90 minutes republicans have given final approval to a bill aimed to punish disney. gop lawmakers angry following the company s public stance against the state s so-called don t say gay law. what this bill would do and when we expect the governor to sign
on the drones, the phoenix ghost drones, what can you say about their role? broadly speaking, are they intelligence oriented or attack oriented? and when did you begin developing that asset? the second question is on the artillery, the howitzers, in laymen s terms, what is the significance of five battalions of artillery that you re helping the ukrainians develop? five additional battalions will add to their compliment of their own artillery battalions. it s added firepower. we re not putting u.s. troops in with these systems. they have to provide the artillerymen, of course. it s 5 five more battalions which is quite a number. hundreds of additional troops to field these systems. they re additional systems.
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came to up, you had just talked to ukrainians who were able to get out of marimariupol, they w some of them we just saw there. i was struck when they describe what they faced at multiple russian checkpoints. reporter: yeah, they had to get through as many as 20 checkpoints manned by russian soldiers, david. we heard they were humiliated and intimidated at every one. even made to strip, where soldiers looked for tattoos that suggested military affiliations. and there is concern now tonight, david, for those thousand civilians stuck in the basement of that steel plant, now sealed off by russia. david? the world now watching that factory. james, thank you. and of course, we heard that list of weapons as part of this new wave of help from the u.s. let s bring in martha raddatz tonight, and martha, we saw that russian video showing the damage in mariupol. the blockade around the steel factory. ukrainians inside that james just mentioned. i m curious tonight, what can these weapons, wh