🇺🇸The United States announced a new $1.3 billion military aid package for Ukraine

The package includes:
◽️Four National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) and munitions;
◾️152mm artillery rounds;
◽️Mine clearing equipment;
◾️Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
◽️Phoenix Ghost and Switchblade Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS);
◾️Precision aerial munitions;
◽️Counter-UAS and electronic warfare detection equipment;
◾️150 fuel trucks;
◽️115 tactical vehicles to tow and haul equipment;
◾️50 tactical vehicles to recover equipment;
◽️Port and harbor security equipment;
◾️Tactical secure communications systems;
◽️Support for training, maintenance, and sustainment activities.

☝️This assistance package provides for the allocation of funds under the USAI program, which means placing an order for production rather than delivery from US warehouses. This is a long-term support.

‼️ Statement of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

The russian federation has once again brutally violated the universal right to free navigation and deliberately undermines food security, condemning millions of people to starvation.

By openly threatening civilian vessels transporting food from Ukrainian ports, launching missile attacks and drone attacks on civilian infrastructure in peaceful cities, deliberately creating a military threat on trade routes, the Kremlin has turned the Black Sea into a danger zone, primarily for Russian vessels and vessels sailing in the Black Sea towards Russian seaports and Ukrainian seaports located on the territory of Ukraine temporarily occupied by Russia. Responsibility for all risks lies entirely with the Russian leadership.

The fate of the Moskva cruiser proves that the Ukrainian Defense Forces have the necessary means to repel russian aggression at sea.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine warns that starting from 00:00 on July 21, 2023, all vessels sailing in the Black Sea towards the seaports of the Russian Federation and Ukrainian seaports located on the territory of Ukraine temporarily occupied by russia may be considered by Ukraine as carrying military cargo with all the corresponding risks.

In addition, shipping in the areas of the North-Eastern Black Sea and the Kerch-Yenikal Strait of Ukraine is prohibited as dangerous, starting from 05:00 on July 20, 2023. The relevant navigational information for mariners has already been published.

Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

🇵🇱Poland will move its troops to the border with Belarus, - Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak

👮‍♂️The country's Security Committee analyzed the situation on the border and decided to redeploy military units to the east.

🗣Committee Secretary Zbigniew Hoffman emphasized that Poland considers the joint exercises of the armed forces of the belarus and the wagner PMC as a provocation, and noted that Polish troops will be there to deter a possible threat and will conduct exercises near the border.

🤥 Yesterday, talking head of the Kremlin Peskov expressed "concern" and said that "Poland's aggressiveness requires increased attention from russia and belarus." In particular, the spokesman said that Moscow and Minsk are working on the concept of a "Union State."