The US will send $300m (£234m) in military weapons to Ukraine, including ammunition, rockets and anti-aircraft missiles, the White House has said.

The surprise announcement comes as a bill in Congress to send further aid to Ukraine stalls amid partisan debate.

The US shipment, the first in nearly three months, is intended to prevent Ukraine from losing ground to Russia.

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said this aid “is nowhere near enough to meet Ukraine’s battlefield needs”.

“This ammunition will keep Ukraine’s guns firing for a period, but only a short period,” Mr Sullivan told reporters on Tuesday, adding that “it will not prevent Ukraine from running out of ammunition.”

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    Yep remember all that showmanship about how the Republicans in Congress are evil and preventing aid. Well, then white house just decided to send it anyway, as if that wasn’t always an option…

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      If passed, the aid bill will send $60 billion to Ukraine.

      Biden just scrounged up $0.3 billion for Ukraine.

      They are not the same.

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      Always helps to read the articles. It was money already allocated

      Tuesday’s emergency package of weapons and equipment comes from cost savings made in earlier Ukraine weapon contracts

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      I’m always impressed at how technology has evolved enough to allow people as retarded as you to manage navigating the internet to type braindead shit like this

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      As a developer from Budapest, why do you give a fuck about US politics? I don’t have any opinions on the politics of Budapest because I don’t give a fuck. I don’t live there. It’s not my problem.

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      either troll farm account or your mom did meth when she was pregnant.

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      They need to wait until it’s politically convenient.

      The democrats have drip-feeding what the people want down to a science.