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When you are a combat leader and asking different folks for capabilities on the battlefield, theres a lot of people that will quickly deliver for you. and in this fight, in the donbas, what ukraine is facing next is a requirement to be light on their feet, light from a standpoint of how much logistics tail they have so they can move very quickly, and a requirement for a lot of intelligence. so the kinds of equipment that you are seeing being delivered now are providing those things, as well as t...

Different equipment is now needed. im announcing another $800 million to help fight in the east and the donbas region. heavy artillery weapons, dozens of howitzers and 144,000 rounds of ammunition to help cope with those howitzers. it also more tactical drones. £311" more tactical drones. our correspondent _ more tactical drones. our correspondent is - more tactical drones. our correspondent is in - more tactical drones. our correspondent is in washington and so, we have a little bit of flavour...

Victory, they want a free city. none of them are going to surrender to the enemy. first it involves serious and heavy weapons. at the moment we dont have enough to free mariupol. >> more weapons and ammunition from the u.s. are on the way. president biden announced another $800 million in military assistance to ukraine today. that includes 144,000 rounds of ammunition. biden invoked a famous line to underscore the importance of that aid. >> wont always be able to advertise everything that our pa...

7, 7,200 howitzers. 144,000 artillery rounds as well. you have vehicles to tow those howitzers as well as over 121 additional drones, similar to those switchblade drones that the ukrainians have been using thanks to the united states. all of this coming as president biden making clear that there is now a critical window to help ukraine in this next phase of the campaign. >> were in a critical window now of time where that -- theyre going to set the stage for the next phase of this war. and the u...

Because if he were to do so, it would tell any nation that has nuclear weapons, say china, vis-a-vis taiwan, that you can invade a neighbor and not pay any consequence for it. so i think the president should ignore the clock and he should continue to arm ukraine and seek victory and define victory, a free and sovereign ukraine with its territorial integrity intact. >> from a military standpoint, are we giving ukraine enough weapons to win this war? >> we are beginning to. i mean, weve given them...

By may the 9th, he can claim a victory, a big victory in ukraine or at least in eastern ukraine. will he be able to do that? thats another question. the united states is sending more military assistance to ukraine, including howitzer artillery pieces and phoenix ghosts drones developed specifically for the ukraine conflict. president biden said the nature of the warfare on ukraines eastern front meant different equipment was required. today, im announcing another $800 million to further augment ...

Reversing course with oil and gas leases on federal land, but some say it would make the crisis worse in the years ahead. madison has the story from fox business in new york. >> this is the first time since bride took office the federal government is offering new fossil fuel leases on public land. the issue, the amount of land offered up is much lower and the royalties are higher. the government is increasing royalties on the new leases to 18.75%. that is up from 12.5%. so the government is taki...

Recent remarks about this, he was saying there would be a use it or lose it strategy or use it or lose it policy for a lot of these private oil companies and drillers where they already have the lease, use it or else we will start taxing you more on it. but obviously in a week or two since the president said that didnt see enough people starting to break ground on some of these leases that they had. so now we have this new policy where they are making another 144,000 acres available. that is 80%...

100 people per every minute. multiply that time 60s. if you do that 24 hours a day, its 144,000 people per day that are coming over the borders outside of ukraine, leaving that war. here in poland, they have more than a million people. so they have the vast majority of the 1.7 million refugees that have left ukraine coming over to border here. there are two crossings here. one is for cars, trucks, and all the vehicles. this one is for pedestrians and again, this has changed from a couple of days...

Over every minute and every hour, that means that 6,000 people coming over every hour. and that means, in 24 hours, thats 144,000 people who are coming out of ukraine and trying to find refuge in other countries. this country, poland, has the vast majority of them with more than a million people now who have crossed over these borders. sara sidner, cnn, poland. now, some refugees are hoping to find a temporary home in belgium. hundreds were lined up outside a registration center in brussels on...