China News Agency, Washington, April 13 (Reporter Sha Hanting) U.S. President Biden announced on the 13th local time that he would provide Ukraine with an additional military aid of a total of 800 million US dollars.
Biden announced the decision on the same day after a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Biden said in a statement that the military assistance provided to Ukraine this time includes artillery, artillery shells, armored personnel carriers and helicopters to enhance Ukraine's defense capabilities.
Biden said the U.S. will work with allies to continue supplying Ukraine with arms and resources as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues.
The press secretary of the US Department of Defense, John Kirby, said at a press conference on the same day that the military assistance provided to Ukraine this time included weapons and equipment that had never been provided to Ukraine before.
He also reiterated that the United States will not send troops to Ukraine, and that there will be no American pilots flying these helicopters to Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised speech on February 24 that he had decided to launch a special military operation in the Donbas region, and said that Russia had no plans to occupy Ukraine.
According to the US media "Capitol Hill" report, since Russia launched military operations in Ukraine, the United States has provided Ukraine with about 1.7 billion US dollars in military assistance.
In addition, due to Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, the United States has taken several rounds of sanctions against Russia, including sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin and other individuals, exclusion of some Russian banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) payment system, and cancellation of normal trade relations with Russia Wait.
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