CNN: Ukraine received a new batch of military aid from the United States

A new shipment of US military aid has arrived in Ukraine. Including received heavy weapons, CNN reports, citing a White House spokesman.

“Supplies from the latest security aid package from the Biden administration to Ukraine have begun to arrive. The U.S. agreed for the first time to provide Kiev with the types of heavy weapons that some officials in [U.S. President Joe] Biden's administration a few weeks ago considered too much of an escalation risk.

11 Mi-17 helicopters, 18 Howitzer guns and another 300 Switchblade drones have been sent to Ukraine. The military assistance package will also include T-72 tanks, 200 M113 armored personnel carriers, missiles for Javelin anti-tank systems, reminds Tsargrad . This week, Biden approved an additional $800 million military aid package for Ukraine. Earlier, the United States provided more than $3 billion in aid to Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special operation on the territory of Ukraine on February 24. According to him, the priority of the Russian army is the exclusion of unnecessary casualties among the civilian population, the defeat of military infrastructure facilities, equipment and weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and national battalions with high-precision means.