LIVE UPDATES: Biden Announces New Package of Military Aid to Ukraine Including Artillery, Radars

The White House is considering sending two types of anti-ship missile - Boeing Harpoons and Raytheon-Kongsberg Naval Strike Missiles (NSM), Reuters reported citing three US officials and two congressional sources as saying.

However, the weapons' delivery is being complicated by the fact that there is limited availability of platforms to launch the Harpoons from shore, given that the missile is largely sea-based, the report said.

The Biden administration is considering taking a launcher off of a US ship, according to the officials cited in the report.

There is also reluctance among countries possessing Harpoon missiles to be the first to send them to Ukraine because of concerns about Russian reprisals should a ship be sunk, the officials said.

The United States considers delivery of NSMs to be less logistically challenging, due to the fact that NATO allies could loan available ground-based launchers, the report said.

Weapons requests, including the US systems, would need approval by the State Department, the report added.

"Grain ... are being carried out of Ukraine actively using railways and using barges on the Danube but where is this screen going? We have reason to suspect that this grain is not being used to feed the hungry in the Global South, but it's being stored in grain storage of a number of different European countries," Nebenzia said during a UN Security Council meeting. "As we understand it, Ukraine is paying for deliveries of Western weapons in this way."

"Illegal unilateral sanctions on Russia and Belarus have damaged the agricultural sector, and they had done that even before the events in Ukraine," Nebenzia told a UN Security Council meeting.

"Our country is interested in the stable functioning of the world food market," Zakharova said.

The funding is expected to come from what remains of the drawdown authorities available for use by the Biden administration for Ukraine.

The ministers discussed the talks in Vienna that aim to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Amir Abdollahian said that a breakthrough was possible if the United States "acts rationally."

NATO has provided nearly $4 billion in aid to Ukraine since the start of Russia's special military operation and has increased Ukraine's air capabilities by 50% and its land forces by 40%, Wolters said.

On February 24, Russia launched a special military

Specific details of their conversation will be kept private, Butler added.

Blinken is in New York City this week to discuss with the United States' international partners the global food shortage and the conflict in Ukraine.

On Thursday, the US Senate will vote on a bill to deliver over $40 billion in new military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. The bill will increase presidential drawdown authority funding from the $5 billion the Biden administration initially requested to $11 billion.

In April, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said that the IMF and Ukraine discussed a follow-up aid package to support the nation's economy after the current crisis ends.