they first part of a new shipment worth $800 million in military aid for ukraine is going to start arriving in ukraine within a couple of hours. jasmine write is with us from the white house. i know this is different than previous packages that were shipped there. help us understand what exactly the u.s. is sending to ukraine. reporter: well, christi and alex, this package is meant to try to meet the needs of the ukrainians as the fight is expected to shift to the donbas region shortly. and so this new package, it is a first time that the u.s. has agreed to send this kind of weaponry. as you could see on the screen here, we had the howitzers, those are good for a long range target as the new fighting that is expected to happen on a clear and open format battlefield, not something that we ve seen earlier. we saw that city warfare. and we have new helicopters something that president zelenskyy has pressured the u.s. to send to him.
thatis much up for debate as to whether that is going to happen. i don t think it s inevitable at all because some of the things he were sitting in the report you just mentioned there that the people of afghanistan commander they know they don t the us over their shoulder to back them up, are going to have to stand up on their own and they know now that their own and they know now that their life is on the line. if they don t make the changes that are necessary, either diplomatically or evenin necessary, either diplomatically or even in the security arena, i think you will see the oche people pulled together like they have not so far because now they have to. and so the televangelists not having a free line anything and they will have i think more casualties if they start moving into city warfare. he will not work out there with they think. but they are gaining ground rapidly. was it a mistake for the us to pull troops out in such an uncoordinated manner? it was definitely not a mistak