The Australian government will commit an initial AU$4 million (US $2.87 million) to Ukraine for military assistance, which comes after Prime Minister Scott Morrison earlier promised to send lethal and non-lethal military equipment to the embattled country. Morrison told Radio 4BC that the government was working with NATO partners on the most effective way to ship the aid to Ukraine. “We’ve got an initial commitment into NATO this morning, which is providing non-lethal support, so that medical packages those sorts of things to assist in the conflict zone. But we’ll be making further announcements about a broader humanitarian assistance support,” the prime minister said on Feb. 28. The latest move comes after Australia, along with like-minded nations, imposed heavy sanctions on the Russian leadership targeting 350 oligarchs, MPs, and military commanders, as well as 13 Belarusian individuals including its defence minister, Viktor Khrenin. Australia, along with the European Commission, France, …