nato s to russia s aggression, and to help ukraine defend itself. the united states is rallying the world to stand with ukraine. allies and partners around the globe are making significant contributions. secretary austin just brought together more than 50 countries, more than 50 countries, pledging new commitments. and this is a global effort to support ukraine. nearly 140,000 anti-tank systems, more than 600 tanks, nearly 500 artillery systems, more than 600,000 rounds of artillery ammunition and ad advanced multiple launch systems, and the united states is leading the way. we provided ukraine with nearly $7 billion in security assistance since i took office. the next few days we intend to announce more than 800 million more including new advanced western air defense systems for ukraine, more artillery, and ammunition, counterbattery radars, additional ammunition for the high mars multiple launch rocket system we already have given ukraine and more high mars coming from ot
Ukraine, more artillery, and ammunition, counterbattery radars, additional ammunition for the high mars multiple launch rocket system we already have given ukraine and more high mars coming from other countries as well. we re also welcome for the first time our partners in the indo-pacific to participate in the nato summit. as i indicated to putin, this would be his action would cause worldwide response. bringing together democratic allies and partners from the atlantic and the pacific, to focus on the challenges that matter to our future, and to defend the rules-based order against the challenges including from china, and the g7 in germany, we launched what started off to be the build back better notion, but it morphed into the partnership for global infrastructure and investment. to offer developing and middle income countries better options
Dana? the new military package that we reported on yesterday includes weapons that haven t been sent before. so how does this given what we re seeing on the landscape affect the speed with which the u.s. and its allies can get those weapons to ukraine. well, we are seeing now the approval of the heavy weapons and we can show our viewers a list of some of the things. take a look right off the top of the list. howitzers, mi-17 helicopters, air defense radar, counterbattery radars. these are the things they ll need for that donbas fight. it is geography that is open, flat, relatively speaking. they are going to be firing at very long ranges. this is not the ambush tactics we saw in the woods north of kyiv several weeks ago. so this is the critical package of heavy weapons that zelenskyy has wanted and that now finally are being shipped. but as you point out, time is of the essence. if putin is already moving, can
Really now scrambling to get the ukrainians the kinds of weapons they ve been asking for to try to have a defense a proper defense against russia, particularly in the donbas area. we have on the screen the list of some of the weapons that are going to be headed towards ukraine. i know you re familiar with them. some of this is different from what we have seen before. how much will actually require training for the ukrainians to use them? this isn t necessarily just to pick up and go kind of situation, is it? no. counterbattery radars, though, have already been delivered to ukraine so they should be able to master that pretty quickly. mi-17 helicopters are something that they have flown themselves. artillery is, you know, great. apologies to the artillery men, but it doesn t take a masters degree to operate it. they can do that. i think the most important