00:26US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky during his visit to Kiev on Monday, and announced a new $400 million military aid package for Ukraine.
Footage shows Austin participating in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the two leaders discussed military support for Kiev.
The defence secretary noted that the aid package included ammunition,
military equipment and weapons, according to media reports.
At the weekend, Zelensky claimed he had 'clear data' showing the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was supplying 'military personnel' for Russia-Ukraine conflict. Moscow and Pyongyang have strongly denied the claims, while NATO and the US said they 'couldn't confirm' the reports.
Last week, the Ukrainian leader revealed his 'Victory Plan' for the conflict to allies and his own parliament. It included demands for an immediate invitation to join NATO, permission to use long-range weaponry supplied by allies for strikes deep inside Russia, a 'non-nuclear strategic deterrent package' in the country, protection for Ukraine's natural resources and replacing some US troops across Europe with Ukrainian forces.
NATO chief Mark Rutte refused to publicly back the call for membership or reveal the state of ongoing talks. Western countries have also failed to agree on the supply of - and permission for - long range strikes inside Russia.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova also had strong words for the plan, calling it a "set of incoherent slogans, bloody froth on a neo-Nazi murderer's lips". Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said it was "most likely the same US plan to fight us to the last Ukrainian that Zelensky disguised and called a peace plan" and claimed that a real plan would require Kiev to realise "the futility of the policy that they are pursuing".
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
Don't mention the 'Victory Plan'... or the DPRK - US DefSec Austin meets with Zelensky to discuss military aid for Ukraine during visit to Kiev
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky during his visit to Kiev on Monday, and announced a new $400 million military aid package for Ukraine.
Footage shows Austin participating in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the two leaders discussed military support for Kiev.
The defence secretary noted that the aid package included ammunition,
military equipment and weapons, according to media reports.
At the weekend, Zelensky claimed he had 'clear data' showing the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was supplying 'military personnel' for Russia-Ukraine conflict. Moscow and Pyongyang have strongly denied the claims, while NATO and the US said they 'couldn't confirm' the reports.
Last week, the Ukrainian leader revealed his 'Victory Plan' for the conflict to allies and his own parliament. It included demands for an immediate invitation to join NATO, permission to use long-range weaponry supplied by allies for strikes deep inside Russia, a 'non-nuclear strategic deterrent package' in the country, protection for Ukraine's natural resources and replacing some US troops across Europe with Ukrainian forces.
NATO chief Mark Rutte refused to publicly back the call for membership or reveal the state of ongoing talks. Western countries have also failed to agree on the supply of - and permission for - long range strikes inside Russia.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova also had strong words for the plan, calling it a "set of incoherent slogans, bloody froth on a neo-Nazi murderer's lips". Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said it was "most likely the same US plan to fight us to the last Ukrainian that Zelensky disguised and called a peace plan" and claimed that a real plan would require Kiev to realise "the futility of the policy that they are pursuing".
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky during his visit to Kiev on Monday, and announced a new $400 million military aid package for Ukraine.
Footage shows Austin participating in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the two leaders discussed military support for Kiev.
The defence secretary noted that the aid package included ammunition,
military equipment and weapons, according to media reports.
At the weekend, Zelensky claimed he had 'clear data' showing the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was supplying 'military personnel' for Russia-Ukraine conflict. Moscow and Pyongyang have strongly denied the claims, while NATO and the US said they 'couldn't confirm' the reports.
Last week, the Ukrainian leader revealed his 'Victory Plan' for the conflict to allies and his own parliament. It included demands for an immediate invitation to join NATO, permission to use long-range weaponry supplied by allies for strikes deep inside Russia, a 'non-nuclear strategic deterrent package' in the country, protection for Ukraine's natural resources and replacing some US troops across Europe with Ukrainian forces.
NATO chief Mark Rutte refused to publicly back the call for membership or reveal the state of ongoing talks. Western countries have also failed to agree on the supply of - and permission for - long range strikes inside Russia.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova also had strong words for the plan, calling it a "set of incoherent slogans, bloody froth on a neo-Nazi murderer's lips". Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said it was "most likely the same US plan to fight us to the last Ukrainian that Zelensky disguised and called a peace plan" and claimed that a real plan would require Kiev to realise "the futility of the policy that they are pursuing".
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.