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The conversations Mike Mitchell had with Ukrainian refugees were short. But their faces said it all.

Senior staff writer for "the war zone". howard, thank you for being with us. give me some sense of this, we heard about the weapons slovakia and the last week or two we heard bits about soviet era, soviet built weapons systems, tanks, personnel carriers things like that that are going to ukraine in exchange for being replaced by the u.s. because they're nato countries. so the nato countries get new stuff, ukraine gets the old stuff that they, in theory, know how to use. >> yes. to date ukraine has received about 60,000 anti-armor systems, about 25,000 anti-aircraft systems from the u.s. alone,...

Administration and for that matter, any country in the world. >> first of all, with secretary austin, they amounsed s 300s, will go from slovakia, a nato member, to ukraine. as president zelenskyy has been scrying for and we confirmed the switch blade drones are among the weapons that have been approved as part of the new package, which are high-tech, new, very adaptable new technology. so, that weaponry is getting there, correct? >> we are providing unmanned aerial systems and armor systems. the system you described is an antiarmor system. we're not detailing everything we're providing but we...

And armor systems, ammunition and our weapons are flowing into ukraine as i speak. and today i am announcing the united states are prepared to commit more than $1 billion in humanitarian assistance to help get relief to millions of ukrainians affected by the war in ukraine. many ukrainian refugees will wish to stay in europe, closer to their homes. but we've also will welcome 100,000 ukrainians to the united states with the focus on reuniting families. and we will invest $320 million to bolster democratic resilience and defend human rights in ukraine and neighboring countries. we're also coord...

TUCSON (KVOA) — As the war in Ukraine continues, a Tucson-based company is seeing an increased need for its life-saving products.