“... The United States for the first time will send a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine as part of a major $1.85 billion weapons package,...”
Which means that Russia will soon have a Patriot missile battery in their inventory.
that was my first thought.
Z doesn’t want to negotiate an end to hostilities - he clearly stated this morning his goal is ‘revenge’ and dollars spent didn’t matter to him (why should they when they’re free and limitless?)