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US promises new aid to Ukraine in fight against Russia

Darya Piven, 33, looks as her daughter Zlata, 6, as she visits the graves of her parents Nadiya Myakushko, 69, and Volodymyr Cherednichenko, 75, who were killed by Russian army in Irpin on March 24, in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) A Ukrainian serviceman walks in a building near a frontline position in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) Irina, 61, left, stands next to her mother Klavidia, 91, who lies on a mattress next to another elderly woman as they wait to board a train fleeing from the war in Severodonetsk, at a train station in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022. Russia unleashed a string of attacks against Ukrainian rail and fuel installations Monday, striking crucial infrastructure far from the front line of its eastern offensive. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba arrives for an interview with Associated Press at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. Ukraine’s foreign minister is urging U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres to press Russia for an evacuation of the besieged port of Mariupol when he visits Moscow on Tuesday. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told The Associated Press in an interview Monday such a move “is really something that the U.N. is capable to do.” (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) An elderly woman is carried on a stretcher to board a train at a train station in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022, to flee the war in Severodonetsk and nearby towns. Russia unleashed a string of attacks against Ukrainian rail and fuel installations Monday, striking crucial infrastructure far from the front line of its eastern offensive. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Dead bodies wait to be identified outside a morgue in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) People choose from donated clothes that are displayed at a train station before boarding a train, fleeing from the war in Severodonetsk and nearby towns, in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022. Russia unleashed a string of attacks against Ukrainian rail and fuel installations Monday, striking crucial infrastructure far from the front line of its eastern offensive. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) People watch as a residential building burns following a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, center, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, centre right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second from right, attend their meeting, Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) Relatives attend the funeral of Illya Shklyaruk, 25, an Irpin citizen involved in evacuations of his neighbours from the town and killed inside his car by a gun shot by Russian Army on March 8, at the cemetery of Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) A Ukrainian serviceman walks in a building near a frontline position in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) Darya Piven, 33, looks as her daughter Zlata, 6, as she visits the graves of her parents Nadiya Myakushko, 69, and Volodymyr Cherednichenko, 75, who were killed by Russian army in Irpin on March 24, in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Relatives attend the funeral of Illya Shklyaruk, 25, an Irpin citizen involved in evacuations of his neighbours from the town and killed inside his car by a gun shot by Russian Army on March 8, at the cemetery of Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba talks during an interview with Associated Press at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, centre back to the camera, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, third from left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, attend their meeting Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) People choose from donated clothes that are displayed at a train station before boarding a train, fleeing from the war in Severodonetsk and nearby towns, in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022. Russia unleashed a string of attacks against Ukrainian rail and fuel installations Monday, striking crucial infrastructure far from the front line of its eastern offensive. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) A firefighter walks out of an apartment on fire following a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) US Volunteers Wade Helton, left, and Darrell Loveless, center, work moving dead bodies from refrigerated trucks to the morgue in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) A Ukrainian serviceman walks in a building near a frontline position in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) Irina, 61, left, stands next to her mother Klavidia, 91, who lies on a mattress next to another elderly woman as they wait to board a train at a train station in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022, to flee the war in Severodonetsk and nearby towns. Russia unleashed a string of attacks against Ukrainian rail and fuel installations Monday, striking crucial infrastructure far from the front line of its eastern offensive. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Volunteers evacuate an elderly woman out of her apartment at a frontline neighborhood as Russian bombardments continue in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) A Ukrainian serviceman walks in a building near a frontline position in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) Ukrainian Iryna caresses dogs as she asks for money to support a centre for abandoned dogs next to a poster that reads in Ukrainian: "Heroes don't die", in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022. Iryna is a volunteer who helps in a shelter where dozen of abandoned dogs have been moved in. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Darya Piven, 33, looks as her daughter Zlata, 6, as she visits the graves of her parents Nadiya Myakushko, 69, and Volodymyr Cherednichenko, 75, who were killed by Russian army in Irpin on March 24, in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Relatives attend the funeral of Illya Shklyaruk, 25, an Irpin citizen involved in evacuations of his neighbours from the town and killed inside his car by a gun shot by Russian Army on March 8, at the cemetery of Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba talks during an interview with Associated Press at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, centre back to the camera, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, third from left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, attend their meeting Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) People choose from donated clothes that are displayed at a train station before boarding a train, fleeing from the war in Severodonetsk and nearby towns, in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022. Russia unleashed a string of attacks against Ukrainian rail and fuel installations Monday, striking crucial infrastructure far from the front line of its eastern offensive. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) A firefighter walks out of an apartment on fire following a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) US Volunteers Wade Helton, left, and Darrell Loveless, center, work moving dead bodies from refrigerated trucks to the morgue in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) A Ukrainian serviceman walks in a building near a frontline position in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) Irina, 61, left, stands next to her mother Klavidia, 91, who lies on a mattress next to another elderly woman as they wait to board a train at a train station in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022, to flee the war in Severodonetsk and nearby towns. Russia unleashed a string of attacks against Ukrainian rail and fuel installations Monday, striking crucial infrastructure far from the front line of its eastern offensive. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Volunteers evacuate an elderly woman out of her apartment at a frontline neighborhood as Russian bombardments continue in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba talks during an interview with Associated Press at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba answers a question during an interview with Associated Press at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba talks during an interview with Associated Press at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba answers a question during an interview with Associated Press at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba talks during an interview with Associated Press at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba answers a question during an interview with Associated Press at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Kyiv, Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office and posted on Facebook, on Monday, April 25, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends his meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, left, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, attend their meeting Sunday, April 24, 2022, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, not in the picture, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin attend their meeting, Sunday, April 24, 2022, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, not in the picture, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Blinken says Russia is failing in its war aims and Ukraine is succeeding. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, from left; U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pose for a picture during their meeting Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office and posted on Facebook, on Monday, April 25, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends his meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, left, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, attend their meeting Sunday, April 24, 2022, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, not in the picture, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin attend their meeting, Sunday, April 24, 2022, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, not in the picture, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Blinken says Russia is failing in its war aims and Ukraine is succeeding. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, from left; U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pose for a picture during their meeting Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office and posted on Facebook, on Monday, April 25, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends his meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, left, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, attend their meeting Sunday, April 24, 2022, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, not in the picture, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin attend their meeting, Sunday, April 24, 2022, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, not in the picture, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Blinken says Russia is failing in its war aims and Ukraine is succeeding. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, from left; U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pose for a picture during their meeting Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office and posted on Facebook, on Monday, April 25, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends his meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, left, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, attend their meeting Sunday, April 24, 2022, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, not in the picture, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin attend their meeting, Sunday, April 24, 2022, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, not in the picture, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Blinken says Russia is failing in its war aims and Ukraine is succeeding. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, from left; U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pose for a picture during their meeting Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office and posted on Facebook, on Monday, April 25, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends his meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, left, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, attend their meeting Sunday, April 24, 2022, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, not in the picture, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin attend their meeting, Sunday, April 24, 2022, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, not in the picture, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Blinken says Russia is failing in its war aims and Ukraine is succeeding. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, attends his meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Monday, April 25, 2022, from left; U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pose for a picture during their meeting Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP) A part of a destroyed tank and a burned vehicle sit in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Saturday, April 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov) Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, left, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. John Kolasheski, the Commanding General of V Corps, and U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Christopher LaNeve, Commanding General, 82nd Airborne Division, speak with reporters, Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Poland near the Ukraine border. The Biden administration has unveiled new U.S. military assistance and a diplomatic surge for Ukraine as Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a secrecy-shrouded visit to the capital of Kyiv. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool) Ukrainian servicemen attend an Orthodox service during the Easter celebration at the frontline position of 128 brigade of Ukrainian army near Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sunday, April 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Andriy Dubchak) Ukrainian military medics transport an injured Ukrainian serviceman in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, April 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows damage at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, April 24, 2022. (Planet Labs PBC via AP) A military Orthodox priest leads a service during the Easter celebration at the frontline position of 128 brigade of Ukrainian army near Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sunday, April 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Andriy Dubchak) People sit in a public park in Kyiv, Ukraine on Sunday, April 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Olga Zhovtobrukh, 55, cries during an Easter religious service celebrated at a church in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on Sunday, April 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) An Orthodox priest blesses believers during the Easter celebration at the All Saints church in Bahmut, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, April 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Oleksandr, 26 kisses his soon Egor, 2, and his wife Alyona, 26, as they meet at the train station after more than two months separated for the war in Kyiv, Ukraine on Saturday, April 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) A Ukrainian soldier prays in St. Michael Cathedral during Orthodox Easter celebrations in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Russian tanks roll along a street in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Saturday, April 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov) Ukrainian servicewoman holding a basket with traditional cake and painted eggs attends an Orthodox service during the Easter celebration at the frontline position of 128 brigade of Ukrainian army near Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sunday, April 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Andriy Dubchak) Ukrainian servicemen set the table with Orthodox traditional food during the Easter celebration at the frontline position of 128 brigade of Ukrainian army near Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sunday, April 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Andriy Dubchak) A woman lights candles during an Easter religious service celebrated at a church in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, on Sunday, April 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) A men holds military helmet with traditional cakes and painted eggs as Ukrainian priest blesses believers during Easter celebration in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Apr. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Worshipers stand next to their traditional cakes and painted eggs prepared for an Easter celebration during a religious service at a church in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on Sunday, April 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
US promises new aid to Ukraine in fight against Russia