The Biden administration is sending new military aid to Ukraine as the war with Russia escalates following a major Ukrainian military incursion.
The latest package, worth $125 million, includes air defense interceptor missiles, rocket systems, artillery munitions, multi-role radars and anti-tank weapons, the State Department said on Friday.
Fighting intensifies on Russian territory after Ukrainian surprise invasion
Damage after a Russian missile attack in Seridove, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, in March. (Vladyslav Ukolov/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC “UA:PBC”/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
The United States is pouring billions of dollars in aid into Ukraine to counter Russian aggression after a Russian airstrike killed at least 14 people at a shopping mall in Kostyantynivka, in the eastern Donetsk region.
“The ultimate goal here is to help Ukraine defend itself,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters.
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A view of destroyed buildings in the town of Suzha after Ukrainian forces invaded Russia’s Kursk region. (MIC Izvestia/IZ.RU via Reuters)
Some Republicans in Congress are opposed to the Biden administration’s military and economic aid to Ukraine amid much domestic pressure. U.S. National Debt Now it’s over $35 trillion.
On Friday, Russia’s Lipetsk Oblast, just north of Kursk, came under Ukrainian drone attack, reportedly hitting an ammunition depot and warehouse. Russian guided bombs A media representative for East2West told Fox News Digital that it was destroyed in the attack.
Pro-Russian military bloggers published a video online showing the remains of a Russian convoy that was apparently ambushed by Ukrainian forces on Thursday night.
Graphic footage showed burnt out vehicles, some containing the bodies of Russian soldiers.
Russia, meanwhile, declared a federal-level state of emergency in the Kursk region, four days after hundreds of Ukrainian troops stormed across the border in what was seen as Kiev’s biggest attack on Russian territory since the war began.
Up to 400 Russian soldiers en route to fight Ukrainian forces were reportedly killed in a single Himar missile strike in the Kursk region on Friday. (East/West)
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The Russian Defense Ministry said reinforcements were on the way to Kursk to counter the Ukrainian assault, and that Russia was deploying multiple rocket launchers, towed artillery pieces, tanks on trailers and heavy tracked vehicles.
Fox News Digital’s Caitlin McFaul and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
