these images were aired on russian state television. cnn is not in mariupol. we cannot confirm this report. ukrainian officials say remaining defenders in mariupol have now managed to link up and will fight until the end. and in the city of kharkiv, video on social media appears to show explosions in civilian areas from cluster munitions. the u.n. says such attacks may amount to war crimes. for weeks, ukraine s president has been pleading for heavier firepower from the u.s. and nato, and now washington appears to be coming through, announcing a new $800 million security package. notably it includes almost a dozen soviet era mi-17 helicopters which can be used as gunships. that s something volodymyr zelenskyy asked for specifically in a call with president biden on wednesday. also included, more howitzer cannons, switchblade drones, anti-tank missiles, armored personnel carriers, protective
than a thousand ukrainian marines have surrendered in the besieged port city of mariupol. video aired on russian state television what appeared ukrainian soldiers giving up. they have now managed to link up and will fight, quote, until the end. in the city of kharkiv, images on social media appears to show explosions in civilian areas from cluster munitions. the u.n. says such attacks may amount to war crime. well, for weeks now, ukrainian s president has been pleading for heavier firepower from the u.s. and nato. and now washington appears to be coming through, announcing a new $800 million security package. notably, it includes almost a dozen soviet era mi-17 helicopters which can also be used for gunships. president evangelical specifically asked for those helicopters in a call on
and nato and now washington appears to be coming through, announcing a new $800 million security package. notably, it includes almost a dozen soviet-era mi-17 helicopters, which could also be used as gunships. volodymyr zelenskyy asked specifically for that during a call president biden on wednesday. also included? more hall itser canons, switch-blade drones, anti-tank missiles, armored personnel carriers, as well as protective equipment. other equipment to guard against chemical attacks. the european union has also announced a new $544 million package of military equipment, fuel, as well as first aid. ukraine s president was also grateful when president joe biden publicly labeled russia s atrocities in ukraine as genocide. but that is a loaded word with a specific-legal definition. france s president, for one, has shied away from using the word. he was asked about that on french television. here he is.
javelin and switchblade drones and 11 mi-17 helicopters which can be used in combat role. the u.s. is expanding intelligence sharing with ukraine. the president biden s genocide comments are getting mixed reaction with the white house defending it and the questioning whether it meets the definition. watch. the most meaningful impact will be inn suring accountability, whether additional instances of war crime, additional atrocities and if it meets legal definition of genocide. press sect. psaki: he called it a genocide yesterday because it is becoming clearer each day it is putin s aim to wipe out the idea of being ukrainian.
to move and be repaired. the significance of that? i think that means for some period of time down in that region there is going to be the absence of another command ship. there is a brief window of vulnerability for the russian control of those naval operations about odesa. all right, we talked a lot about donbas and admiral kirby talked about donbas as well. i want it show you the terrain there. flat. wide open areas. these helicopters they were discussing, the u.s. is sending to help ukraine, why? well, couple of reasons. those are mi-17 transport helicopters. they can put a large number of troops in, so if they have to reposition troops quickly from point a to point b, they can use those. second, many of them are equipped with rocket launchers, so they can put hellfire missiles on, which is what every tanker fears. every tank fears that. exactly. you see this as a major tank battle. if they have if they can get into that area, with armored