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Mix it. jon: let me put up on the screen the newest 800 million-dollar aid package. part of me the u.s. is providing ukraine. 155-millimeter letter and 30,000 rounds that is a launcher that can do some significant damage. eleven helicopters, switchblade drones which have proven very valuable on the battlefield. armored carriers, humvees and 500 javelin antitank missiles which have also been extremely lethal in the hands of the ukrainian. in her million dollars worth. is there more you feel we should do? >> will jon, i would put this in the two late, better late than never category. but it is c...

This is the array of weapons the ukrainians are going to need to try to push back the russia offensive. the ability to use counterartillery radar, for example, to low indicate where the fire is coming is important. the switchblade drones, very advanced, can be carried by individual soldiers. training in those is key and that apparently was done in the u.s. over the last few weeks. these are significant moves. whether they're enough, we'll watch and see over the next weeks. >> all right. more from ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. 50 days after the invasion began, he reflected on his cou...

Telling "the post" the training will take a few days at most. it all revealed information about ukrainian soldiers who were in the united states for training when the russian invasion began. they were taught how to use switchblade drones as well as new coastal defense drones included in this week's $800 million aid package. those soldiers returned to ukraine last weekend where they will train others on using the same weapons. meanwhile, a new air defense system, the largest item a nato country has sent so far, reportedly has arrived in ukraine. according to "the new york times" the soviet era ...

Quick reaction force that the ukrainians are going to have to basically generate in the east to try and stop any avenue of approach that russia uses. so it will be interesting to see them using these new pieces of equipment, the artillery, the counter fire radars, the fast moving vehicles. many more pieces of javelin and stinger missiles as well as some of the new switchblade drones that they'll be getting. all of these things will contribute. it's giving ukraine a capability that is reinforcing what they've done in the past under a new type of operation. russia's going to attack on several fr...

So, if you match artillery with the counter-battery radar systems that we have, then when the russian army fires artillery, you are able to capture the location of the delivery system that they've got, their artillery pieces. and you can do counter-battery, radar-developed fires. so, basically it's they fire, you find them, you kill them. and that is a critical component to dealing with the russian army systems that we have right now. >> so, u.s. officials say they're sending over the remainder of the last package and within 24 hours, the next 24 hours, ukraine should be receiving more javelin...