The United States announced Tuesday it will send $100 million in additional anti-armor weapons to Ukraine.
“I have authorized, pursuant to a delegation from the President earlier today, the immediate drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $100 million to meet Ukraine’s urgent need for additional anti-armor systems,” Blinken said in a statement.
He added that the “world has been shocked and appalled by the atrocities committed by Russia’s forces in Bucha and across Ukraine.”
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, in a separate statement, said that the extra funding would be used “to meet an urgent Ukrainian need for additional Javelin anti-armor systems.”
Ukrainians have been using the shoulder-launched missiles “so effectively to defend their country,” he noted.
On April 1, the Pentagon announced an extra $300 million in military assistance.
Kirby said the latest tranche brought the US military aid to Ukraine to “more than $1.7 billion since the beginning of Russia’s premeditated and unprovoked invasion on February 24,” and more than $2.4 billion since the beginning of US President Joe Biden’s term in office.
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Survivors of Mariupol theatre strike recall ‘horror’ of strike
Lviv, Ukraine (AFP) April 1, 2022
Two women that survived the Russian airstrike on a theatre sheltering civilians in Ukraine’s besieged city of Mariupol earlier this month told AFP about the “horror” they endured.
Viktoria Dubovytskaya was inside the Mariupol drama theatre when it was hit on March 16. Maria Kutnyakova – who left the theatre to get water the day of the shelling – witnessed the strike from outside, while her mother and sister were still in the building.
The two residents of the besieged port city are now refuge … read more
