New aid package to Ukraine, amounting to 250 million dollars, the US president is going to announce this afternoon Joe Biden.

“I am pleased to say that President (Joe) Biden will today announce an additional $250 million security assistance package for Ukraine,” US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said from the US base in Ramstein, Germany. .

The US Secretary of Defense welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the US Ramstein base, with whom he will hold talks.

The Ukrainian president arrived on Friday at the US airbase in Germany to take part in the meeting of the Ukrainian Defense Contact Group (UDCG). The meeting at the base, located southwest of Frankfurt, is hosted by Austin.

The Ukrainian president is pressing allies for more deliveries long-range weapons, at a time when Russian forces are advancing in Donbass. Zelenskiy and Chancellor Olaf Scholz will hold one-on-one talks in Frankfurt, a German government spokesman said.

As he announced, “Ukraine is currently in control over 1,300 square kilometers and 100 settlements in Kursk. Ukraine’s allies should ignore Putin’s “red lines” (for use of long range weapons in Russia)…we need more weapons to drive Russia off our land. We need a much larger fleet of F-16 fighters.”