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The last is still not the last... For Biden Admin Announces $250 million  to Ukraine military assistance package as US available funding.

$250 million to Ukraine military aid package on Wednesday directed drawdowns for Ukraine,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. “Capabilities provided in today’s package include air defense munitions, air defense system components, added ammunition for high mobility artillery rocket systems, 155mm & 105mm artillery ammunition, anti-armor munitions & over 15mil rounds of ammunition.”

US state department calls on Congress to ‘act swiftly’ to resume flow of aid to Kyiv. Statement was made after US govt announced $250m of new weapons for Ukraine. An investigation by  Associated Press (AP) has found that Russian occupation authorities vastly and deliberately undercounted the dead in one of the most devastating episodes of the 22-month war in Ukraine — flooding followed the catastrophic explosion that destroyed Kakhovka Dam in the southern Kherson region. Russia said 59 people drowned in the territory it controls. But an AP investigation claims the number is at least in the hundreds in the town of Oleshky alone. 

Health workers and others who were in Oleshky told news agency that Russian authorities hid the true number by taking control of the issuance of death certificates, immediately removing bodies not claimed by family, and preventing local health workers and volunteers from dealing with the dead.

An exact figure for the dead – in Oleshky, the occupied area’s most populous town before the war, and beyond – may never be known, even if Ukrainian forces retake the territory and are able to investigate on the ground.

“Scale of this tragedy, not just Russia, but even Ukraine doesn’t realise,” said Svitlana, a nurse who initially oversaw process of collecting death certificates later escaped to Ukrainian-controlled territory. “It’s a huge tragedy."