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conference in germany. this is an important moment, a critical moment in the fight in ukraine. western allies are meeting and have been there to hammer out the latest plan to support ukraine now and support ukraine going forward. a key point of contention right now is germany s refusal so far to supply ukraine with tanks that it said are necessary to win against russia. tanks are not part of the latest aid package that was just announced by the pentagon. a very big package, though. $2.5 billion for ukraine. that does, however, include striker armored vehicles for the very first time. we re going to stand by and going to this press conference any moment. oren liebermann is standing by at the pentagon. what are we expecting to hear. reporter: one of the things that we could hear from lloyd austin is a thank you for everything that countries have provided. the u.s. on the front foot here with a just announced yesterday $2.5 billion package. the second largest the u.s. ....
It helps ukraine meet its air defense needs, with additional munitions, and eight avenger air defenses and tackled the need for armor and combat vehicles. it includes 59 additional bradley infantry fighting vehicles. and 90 striker armored personnel carriers and 53 m-raps and 350 up armored humvees. and it will provide thousands more rounds of artillery. now, we were honored to hear this morning from president zelenskyy of ukraine. and let me also thank several other brave ukraine leaders for joining us today. and that includes my good friend mr. olexy resnikoff and ....