Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the United States for a new $ 800 million military aid package and said it was “just what we were waiting for.” The new military aid package includes heavy artillery, 144,000 ammunition and drones that Ukrainian forces will be able to use in the escalating battle for the Donbas region in the east of the country. Zelensky also called on Western countries to speed up arms supplies to help Ukraine repel the Russian offensive. “The occupiers continue to do everything in their power to give them a reason to talk about at least some victory,” Zelensky said late in the evening on Thursday night in his video interview with the nation. More on the topic: Russia-Ukraine conflict “They are joining forces, organizing new tactical battalions and even trying to start the so-called” mobilization “in the regions that occupy Ukraine,” he added. Zelensky also warned Ukrainians living in areas in southern Ukraine under Russian control not to give them their IDs, which he said could be misused “to falsify a pseudo-referendum about our country” and to form a Moscow-friendly government.