U.S. Sends New Air Defense System To Ukraine

The Biden Administration will send another $400 million to Ukraine, which will include large amounts of ammunition and a new air defense system, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.

For the first time, Kyiv will receive highly mobile Avenger Air Defense Systems, according to the Pentagon officials.

The package will also include ammunition for HIMARS the U.S. has provided to the country for its defensive efforts against Russia, and mortars and missiles for the Hawk surface-to-air anti-aircraft system.

The move comes as the Russian military has announced a withdrawal from the southern city of Kherson, though the move is viewed as a possible ruse to inflict massive casualties on Ukrainian forces.

The package also drops during a brutal Kremlin missile barrage on major Ukrainian cities and infrastructure, which began last month. 

"I don’t think the conflict will be resolved until Putin gets out of Ukraine,” President Biden told reporters Thursday night as he was leaving the White House to travel to Egypt, Cambodia and Indonesia for November summits.

In Indonesia at the G20 summit, neither Biden, nor his secretary of state Antony Blinken has any plan to interact with the Russian delegation, TURAN's correspondent was told by U.S officials.

After Putin's decision to skip the G20, his foreign minister Lavrov will head Russia's delegation in Indonesia.

Alex Raufoglu

Washington D.C.