U.S. Sends Stinger Missiles, Ammunition To Ukraine In New Aid Package

The Biden Administration on Friday announced a new $125 million military aid package for Ukraine that would include Stinger missiles, air defense interceptors, artillery ammunition, and anti-armor systems, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.

The military assistance would be the tenth tranche of equipment since President Joe Biden signed a national security supplemental in April, and will help Ukraine 'protect its troops, its people and its cities from Russian attacks and reinforce its capabilities across the front lines,' as Secretary of State Antony Blinken put it in a statement.

"We will deploy this new assistance as quickly as possible to bolster Ukraine’s defense of its territory and its people," Blinken noted. "As President Biden has made clear, the United States and the international coalition we have assembled will continue to stand with Ukraine," he added.

The move also comes as Ukrainian forces reportedly advanced further east in Kursk Oblast while Kyiv officials have become more outspoken in recent days about their cross-border operation. “Russia brought the war to our land, and it should feel what it has done,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters.

On Friday, a Russian missile struck a shopping mall in Kostiantynivka, in the eastern Donetsk region, killing at least 14 people and wounding 44 others.

Ukraine, on its part, launched a large drone attack against Russian military airfield in Lipetsk Oblast and other Russian military targets in occupied Crimea and Donetsk Oblast.