ukrainian veterans competing here, given special permission to do so by president vlodomyr zelensky. >> our government said that we should be here to tell the world that people are dying. also, saying that others are fighting and surviving. but not all of the team made it out. the archery coach was killed in the fighting earlier this month. the ukrainians one gold, silver and bronze. they may be away from ukraine but their hearts and minds are still back home. anna sophia's mother was also supposed to take part. she was said to be taken hostage by russian forces in mariupol. >> never forget what has happened in ukraine. this is terrifying and awful. >> that is a sentiment echoed by everyone competing in the games. >> here is a roundup of some of the other stories making headlines around the world. police have begun incinerating more than 16 tons seized by antinarcotics units. this includes cocaine, cocoa-based and marijuana. peru is one of the largest cocaine producing countries. they are on a six hour spacewalk. thousands of worshipers have attended blessings and prayed to the weste

here they are meeting ukrainian president vlodomyr zelensky and the foreign secretary, dmytro kuleba.t will give $713 million more military aid to ukraine and nato member states. so that means 3.7 billion dollars of us military aid has been given to ukraine since russia invaded. last week, that included more weapons. weapons like these howitzer artillery systems. this expert in us politics explains more. what we are seeing right now is again not only an affirmation of military aid, but a shift in the kind of aid that is being given to ukraine, specifically to confront this current offensive in the donbas. it will be a different kind of warfare that we have seen previously, so we are seeing much more of an infusion of heavy artillery, tanks, howitzers, armed vehicles, drones, air defence systems, so much stronger military support than we have seen in the past. russia has called the us' supply of weapons unnacceptable. let's hear from antony blinken now. this was him speaking in poland after his meeting with president zelensky. i come back to the proposition that, in terms of russia's w