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US announces new $725m military assistance package for Ukraine

Washington's newest military package includes more ammunition for HIMARS rocket systems and brings the total US military assistance to Ukraine to $18.3bn [File: Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Reuters]

The United States will send Ukraine an additional $725m package of weapons and other military assistance, the White House has said, as Washington added to a flurry of aid announcements from European allies this week amid Russia’s renewed missile attacks on Kyiv and other targets.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on Friday that the aid follows “in the wake of Russia’s brutal missile attacks on civilians across Ukraine”, and “the mounting evidence of atrocities by Russia’s forces”.

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