Security assistance. 9. 5 billion in economic help, in the form of forgivable loans that the us president is authorised to set the terms of and is given the power to cancel. And a much smaller measure includes about 481 million that will be used to help ukrainians resettle into new neighbourhoods and pay for emergency housing. Once the bill is finalised, it would take less than a week for some of the weapons to reach the battlefield. Congress will be voting in the wake of more deadly attacks on ukrainian civilians. On friday, russian missiles struck a rail station and a Maternity Hospital in the central Dnipro Petrovsk region. Local Officials Say at least seven people were killed, including an eight year old child. President Volodymyr Zelensky told nato members on friday that ukraine needs more air Defence Systems to counter russian strikes. Putin must be brought down to earth, and our skies must become safe again. And it is real. And it depends fully on your choice. Choice whether lif
that is ukraine s second biggest city, close to russia. he said we need air defense support to prevent kharkiv from being a second aleppo. how important are these air defence systems for ukraine? when i look at the package before congress, the two things i want to see in ukraine tonight are 155 millimetres shells and more air defence systems. and the pentagon did something very smart, it has been planning for this aid bill to pass and it has a lot of these weapons systems and ammunition ready to go and in europe. so as soon as congress passes this bill, biden will sign it immediately and the weapon systems can be sent. add defence is essential, we have seen dozens of people by in the last week, you said in dnipro and elsewhere, and these are innocent people, they don t need to die, and it is because congress has been unable to act that we are seeing unnecessary suffering. that we are seeing unnecessary sufferinu. , ., , that we are seeing unnecessary
to source everything from artillery and ammunition to add defence applies, to other capabilities, it has been a significant part of my dayjob, | significant part of my dayjob, i sec. austin s dayjob, as he leave this process and we have worked with dozens of countries to be able to source weapons to ukraine, and the specifics of that can be sensitive so i will not speak to any one country, i would just say this remains a high priority for the president to try to get as much materiel as both available and necessary for ukraine to be able to carry forward the fight. for ukraine to be able to carry forward the fight. what exactly are those tools, forward the fight. what exactly are those tools, and are those tools, and separately, priorto are those tools, and separately, prior to the g7, there will be meeting with the counterparts, which i am
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