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Aid for ukraine. we have got some live pictures. a vote is expected in the course of the next hour or so. that figure is more than president biden requested. there were casts at the sound of 33 billion but these funds would be used to provide military support ukraine and humanitarian assistance to those civilians affected by the russian invasion. as we see there, the debating still goes on. as soon as we have a vote, we will bring you the results. the fighting goes on, nonetheless. russia has targeted the black sea port of 0desa, using what the ukrainians say were hypersonic missiles, which fl...

But then the republicans wanted to force a vote on title 42. so that then became dead in the water. so now, the president is saying, ukraine aid is so urgent, i will be depleting these funds just in days, so you need to act quickly, and talk to talked wit legislators over at capitol hill. now, they are de-linking it, even though at first, they wanted to put these together. we should note, the president asked for some $33 billion. right now, what is being discussed on capitol hill in this draft legislation, we could also see a vote as soon as today, is under $40 billion. this is a massive amoun...

Of this vote on the aid package. how soon is the senate expected to take it up? >> reporter: the aid package will be larger than the white house initially requested. they asked for $33 billion. congress added to the pile for humanitarian assistance and military aid, the final cost closer to $40 billion. they'll probably vote late this evening on it. it's a little question when the senate gets to it. remember, the senate set aside most of tomorrow to deal with the women's health protectio vote. >> it looks like it will be, as you say, 40 instead of 33. >> reporter: that's right. this happened w...

Congress is working on sending $33 billion more in aid and military equipment to ukraine, but the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is pushing the u.s. to take another move, to name russia a state sponsor of terrorism. cnn asked the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. about the biden administration position on that. >> i think russia has put itself on that list of state sponsors of terror. they are carrying out terror acts of people against ukrainian people, against ukrainian civilians. it's not necessary for us to put them on. >> okay. joining me now, jason, professor of practice at the middleb...

While they get an update on the ground about what's happening from president zelenskyy. we know this, of course, comes just a few days after president biden announced just the latest security package, about 1$125 million to ukraine. i want to read you a bit about what was inside this package. again, it gets to that point of u.s. making sure that ukraine has the weapons that it needs. the latest package included 25,155 artillery rounds. jamming equipment, field equipment and spare parts, a white house official said. a tag line of that announcement on friday comes as the president said that they...