The US will send $300m (£234m) in military weapons to Ukraine, including ammunition, rockets and anti-aircraft missiles, the White House has said.

The surprise announcement comes as a bill in Congress to send further aid to Ukraine stalls amid partisan debate.

The US shipment, the first in nearly three months, is intended to prevent Ukraine from losing ground to Russia.

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said this aid “is nowhere near enough to meet Ukraine’s battlefield needs”.

“This ammunition will keep Ukraine’s guns firing for a period, but only a short period,” Mr Sullivan told reporters on Tuesday, adding that “it will not prevent Ukraine from running out of ammunition.”

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    8 months ago

    Imagine using these money to make something useful and not to fuel wars and dictatorships

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        8 months ago

        Fueling the war with more weapons like cluster munitions is the opposite of helping ukrainian children. The white house is ok with killing thousand of children in gaza, what make you think they care more about the ones in ukraine?

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          8 months ago

          Hey, thanks for outing yourself as a Russian troll farm account so I can add you to my blacklist very kind of you. :)

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            8 months ago

            What makes you think i work for the russian government when i’m calling out them all for being corrupted scum?