Latest Ukraine Updates
More Aid Spending for Ukraine
President Joe Biden announced yet another security assistance package for Ukraine. This is the 14th such package, and it will cost the American taxpayers $800 million. Speaking at the end of the NATO summit in Madrid, Biden said the aid would include heavy artillery, ammunition, advanced air defense systems, counter-battery radar systems, and ammunition for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS).
New Prisoner Swap Biggest in the War
Ukraine secured the release of 144 captured soldiers in the biggest exchange of prisoners of war so far during the fight with Russia. The majority of these prisoners were badly wounded, suffering from gunshot and shrapnel wounds, blast traumas, burns, fractured bones, and amputated limbs, according to a report from the intelligence agencies of Ukraine, collectively known as GUR.