The United States announced a new military aid package that includes ammunition for mortars, artillery systems, and HIMARS.

AP reported on this.

Under a new U.S. directive, Ukraine can use such weapons to strike across the border into Russia if forces there are attacking or preparing to attack.

That change, however, does not alter U.S. policy that directs Ukraine not to use American-provided ATACMS or long-range missiles and other munitions to strike offensively inside Russia, according to U.S. officials.

“The U.S. will send about $225 million in military aid to Ukraine, in a new package that includes ammunition Kyiv’s forces could use to strike threats inside Russia to defend the city of Kharkiv from a heavy Russian assault,” U.S. officials said Thursday.

The aid includes munitions for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, as well as mortar systems and an array of artillery rounds.

They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss aid not yet publicly announced.

The new aid package comes as President Joe Biden used his speech Thursday at the American cemetery in Normandy on the 80th anniversary of D-Day to vow that the U.S. “will not walk away” from the defense of Ukraine and allow Russia to threaten more of Europe. To do so, he said, would mean the U.S. has forgotten “what happened here on these hallowed beaches.”

Two weeks ago, the fifth aid package authorized by the U.S. President since the signing of the National Security Supplemental Act last month was announced, and the third package in which the President used Presidential Drawdown Authorities.

This Presidential Drawdown Authority package has an estimated value of $275 million.

On May 10, Militarnyi reported on the provision of a new military aid package to Ukraine, the total cost of which is estimated at $400 million.

The package included additional ammunition for HIMARS, artillery ammunition, armored vehicles and infantry fighting vehicles.