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The financial cost of defending Ukraine against Russia indefinitely matters, writes Michael Taylor.

As 11 more Mi-17 helicopters originally intended for Afghanistan head to Ukraine, eyes turn to the Afghan Air Force planes left in Central Asia.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) protests any illegal transfer of Russian- or Soviet-made weapons to... 27.04.2022, Sputnik International

Which means they explode on impact, have antiarmor warhead that can go after hardened targets as well as softer targets like the radar pieces there, controlled individually and also can go in and distinguish between a friendly target as well as an unfriendly target so that's the key element there with these drones. finally, for mobility purposes and for gunshot purposes they can use helicopters, this is primarily a transport helicopter, an mi-17 but this would be the type of weapon system that would be very useful for the ukrainians at the present time. >> colonel, thank you so much, appreciat...

Russia in eastern ukraine is coming. with that shift and escalation, ukraine's needs for weapons are changing and growing. this week, the biden administration announced a weapons package worth $800 million, with new and more sophisticated systems. >> some of them are reinforcing capabilities that we have already been providing ukraine, and some of them are new capabilitys that we have not provided ukraine. >> reporter: among the bigger items are mi-17 helicopters, 11 of them, which the u.s. redirected from afghanistan to ukraine. small drones called switchblades, 300 of them, also called kamik...