President Joe Biden announced another USD 800 million in military assistance on Wednesday following a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, writes CNBC.

Biden said the latest weapons package would be a mixture of systems already deployed to the fight as well as “new capabilities tailored to the wider assault we expect Russia to launch in eastern Ukraine”.

“These new capabilities include artillery systems, artillery rounds, and armored personnel carriers. I have also approved the transfer of additional helicopters. In addition, we continue to facilitate the transfer of significant capabilities from our allies and partners around the world”, - Biden wrote in a statement announcing the additional arms package.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby detailed some of the items in the latest weapons package during a briefing at the Defense Department. He said the list of weapons “came directly out of multiple conversations with the Ukrainians in the last few days.”

Kirby said that the package will include 11 Mi-17 helicopters that were previously earmarked for Afghanistan before the U.S.-backed government collapsed, 18 Howitzers and 40,000 artillery rounds, 500 Javelin missiles, 300 armored vehicles and 300 Switchblade drones.

The latest security package, the seventh such installment, comes on the heels of recent U.S. intelligence assessments that the Kremlin will soon focus its military might in eastern and southern Ukraine after weeks of stalled ground advances on the capital city of Kyiv.