The United States will provide $300 million in military aid to Ukraine as Kyiv prepares for a spring counteroffensive.
A formal announcement is expected as early as Wednesday, US officials said.
The set will include artillery shells, howitzers, HIMARS missiles, mortars, rockets and anti-tank rifles.
For the first time, the United States is sending Hydra-70 missiles, which are launched from aircraft and can be used to support the advance of Ukrainian ground forces.
The weapons will come from Pentagon stocks and will resemble previous deliveries.
The 37th arms delivery to Ukraine since the Russian invasion began in February 2022 comes as Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said Ukraine “has reached the finish line and we can say “Yes, everything is ready”.
With this package, total US military aid will be approximately $36 billion.
Officials say the weapons and other equipment will help Ukraine emerge from a protracted and bloody winter stalemate as it focused on heavy fighting in the east of the country, particularly in the Bakhmut region of the region. from Donetsk.
The Ukrainian General Staff said Russia continues to focus its efforts on offensive operations in Ukraine’s industrial east, concentrating operations around Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Maryinka.
On Tuesday, in the Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, there was already the second explosion on the railway this week, which led to the derailment of a freight train.
“An unidentified explosive device was detonated in the area of Snezhetskaya station. There were no casualties,” Bryansk region governor Alexander Bogomaz wrote on Telegram.
“Following the incident, a locomotive and several carriages of a freight train derailed,” he added, without specifying who was responsible for the incident.
Russian authorities claim that in the region bordering Ukraine and Belarus, Ukrainian sabotage groups carried out numerous attacks in the 14 months following the invasion.
On Monday, another explosion occurred in the same area, which also derailed the train.
In an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the White House did not inform him of the leak of classified US documents in April.
In response to Zelenskyy’s comments, a White House National Security Council spokesman told Reuters: “We are in constant communication with our Ukrainian counterparts on a range of issues, including the issue of unauthorized disclosures, but we will not go into the details of these private debates.”
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