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The USA will send ammo and military vehicle to Ukraine as part of a new assistance package worth 725 million USD, meant to help Kyiv fend off the Russian invasion, the US Department of Defense has announced. Saudi Arabia will also send to Ukraine humanitarian aid worth 400 million USD. Crown prince Mohammed bin Salman told Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, that his country is willing to continue its efforts to mediate a truce between Kyiv and Moscow. On the ground, Ukrainian investigators have exhumed Ukrainian military buried in one of the two mass graves discovered in the wake of the Russian withdrawal from Lyman, eastern Donetsk. Meanwhile, a power plant in Belgorod, Russia caught fire in what the regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov has described as a Ukrainian attack.