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About $8 million more of drawdown authority, to take stuff from our stocks and give it to the ukrainians, which were doing every single day. thats great. but itll largely depend on their consumption rate. how fast are they going through this? if this becomes a prolonged conflict, yes, we want to make sure were prepared to help. >> ukraine is proposing to release russian prisoners in exchange for the evacuation of wounded soldiers inside the steel plant in mariupol. the countrys deputy prime mini...

Are talking about $4 billion, so huge amounts of money, and it is worth pointing out that there is only so far president biden can go in terms of authorising all of this money. so he is reaching a point where he will exhaust this drawdown authority that he as president gets, which is where congress allows him to spend this much money. if he wants more, which he has said that he does, he wants more weapons, more ammunition, as i said, to keep flowing into ukraine, he will need to get approval fro...

Ukraine is able to stop russia thus far. every american taxpayer and every member of our armed forces can be proud of the fact that our countrys generosity and the skill and service of our military helped arm and repel russias aggression in ukraine. to beat back putins savagery as it tried to seize ukraines capital. the battle of kyiv was a historic victory for the ukrainians. it was a victory for freedom, won by the ukrainian people with unprecedented assistance by the united states and our all...

Disbursement ive almost exhausted the drawdown authority that congress authorized last month. in order to sustain ukraine for the duration of this fight, next week im going to have to send to congress a supplemental budget request to keep weapons and ammunition flowing without interruption to the brave ukrainian fighters who continue to deliver economic assistance to the ukrainian people. my hope is and my expectation is congress would move and act quickly. i want to thank the congress, democrat...

In terms of the package, its similar to the money announced last week for assistance. these are weapons needed to fight this particular war thats going on on the eastern front. different weapons needed because the terrain is flat or there. is flatter there. if we look at how much money in total america spent since the war began, its just gone over $3 billion. in terms of how much money has been spent in helping ukraine since biden came into office, its about $4 billion. huge amounts of money. it...

And appealing from a weapon stop by for more help from more support. what about the appetite theyre going forward now is yellow president biden says he will not last and he mentioned that in his press conference that basically, he is nearly at the end of his drawdown authority which is given to him by congress and the last spending bill, if he needs to, if he needs more comments and more to ukraine and he doesnt he needs to say that, he has to keep supplying ammunition, keep it flowing and not i...

Weapons needed to fight this particular war thats going on on the eastern front. different weapons needed because the terrain is flat or there. needed because the terrain is flat orthere. if needed because the terrain is flat or there. if we look at how much money in total america spent since the war began, its just gone over $3 billion. in terms of how much money has been spent in helping ukraine since biden came into office, its about $4 billion. its worth pointing out that president biden, th...