US President Joe Biden has pledged to provide Ukraine with five new strategic air defence systems to counter relentless Russian attacks.
In a speech welcoming Nato leaders to Washington DC at the opening of the summit Wednesday, Biden declared that the military alliance is more powerful than ever.
He said the US would partner with Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Romania to donate Patriot missile batteries and other systems to aid Ukraine, amid growing civilian casualties in the conflict.
The announcement comes just two days after a Russian missile levelled a children’s hospital in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv – an attack the city’s mayor said was among the worst since the beginning of the war.
