The U.S. Congress approved $13.6 billion in military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine following Russia's invasion.
and 500 Stinger missiles after its government was initially reluctant to supply arms to Ukraine. And the Baltic countries have given Ukraine thousands of weapons, including Stingers and anti-tank Javelin missiles.
A senior U.S. defense official addressed the possibility of U.S. and NATO weapons falling into the wrong hands on Friday, telling Reuters:"Frankly, we believe that risk is worth taking right now because the Ukrainians are fighting so skillfully with the tools at their disposal and they're using them so creatively."
There is also the potential for those weapons to fall into Russian hands, with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu suggesting at a meeting of the country's Security Council on Friday that seized weapons could be given to the breakaway regions of Ukraine, the so-called people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.
There were concerns on Saturday that Russian forces could be planning to launch a major attack on the capital city of Kyiv, with the U.K's Ministry of Defence warning that the Russians may be planning to encircle the city and saying that other Ukrainian cities were already encircled. "Elements of the large Russian column north of Kyiv have dispersed. This is likely to support a Russian attempt to encircle the city," the ministryKyiv was also reportedly preparing for an attack, with barricades erected and anti-tank obstacles deployed in strategic locations. Ukrainian forcesA Ukrainian soldier holds a Next Generation Light Anti-tank Weapon that was used to destroy a Russian armored personal carrier in Irpin, north of Kyiv, on March 12, 2022.
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