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In a remote address to the Ukrainian parliament, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces a further £300 million ($376 million, 358 million euros) in UK military aid to the beleaguered ex-Soviet nation. SOUNDBITE
The US Senate passes a major military aid package for Ukraine, with President Joe Biden vowing new arms supplies in the $61 billion measure will be delivered swiftly to the warzone as Russia makes battlefield gains. IMAGES
Half of Western military aid to Kyiv is delivered late, says Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, as the country struggles with an ammunition shortage. SOUNDBITE
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron urges members of the US Congress to approve a Ukraine aid package. "We should be standing up for freedom, standing up for the right of this country to defend itself and making sure that Putin doesn't win," he says while on a visit to Bulgaria. The Republican leader of the US House of Representatives blocked war aid for Ukraine on February 13, ignoring President Joe Biden's plea that passing the bill was vital for standing up to Russian President Vladimir Putin. SOUNDBITE
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledges to find a way around Hungary's block on a 50 billion euro aid package for Ukraine at a summit early next year. "We will have an operational solution" she says, speaking after a crunch EU summit in Brussels where member states agreed to begin membership talks with Kyiv, despite opposition from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).