US extends $125 million aid package to Ukraine as Kyiv launches largest attack on Russia's south
India TV NewsWashington: The United States has announced a military aid package of $125 million for Ukraine, including weapons, much-needed air defence capabilities, radars and anti-tank weapons, as Kyiv has launched one of its largest ground offensives in Russia's southwestern Kursk region since the war began in 2022, taking Moscow by surprise. At least 1,000 Ukrainian forces broke across the border on Tuesday in a shock counter-offensive, after months of gradual Russian advances in eastern Ukraine, in one of its largest attacks since the war broke out. The acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexei Smirnov, said drone debris had fallen on a power substation near Kurchatov, the site of one of Russia's largest nuclear power stations with four reactors. Russia missile attack kills 14 in Ukraine Putin has described the surprise incursion by Ukraine as a “large-scale provocation” that involved “indiscriminate shelling of civilian buildings, residential houses and ambulances.” At least five civilians, including two ambulance workers, have reportedly been killed in the Ukrainian attack on the Kursk region and nearly 70 others have been wounded.