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.”
Every state for the last 2500 years (and probably before) has had the possibility martial law and every democracy in the world has it now. Sometimes martial law is necessary, like when people come to rape your sister and murder your grandmother and wipe out your culture.
It does not make a country “not a democracy anymore” to use it appropriately and there is no question that it’s being used appropriately here.