US President Joe Biden’s administration plans to announce another $425 million in military aid to Ukraine on Friday, including anti-drone missiles and ammunition.
This was reported by the company Reuters A document with two US officials and a list of weapons being prepared for export reads, “European reality”.
A new aid package for Ukraine could include laser-guided munitions to shoot down drones worth about $300 million. They will be ordered through the “Ukrainian Defense Assistance Initiative” (USAI) program, which provides for the purchase of weapons from manufacturers instead of transferring them from US military warehouses.
The rest of the package includes additional munitions for the NASAMS and HIMARS systems, 105 and 155 mm cannon, TOW anti-tank missiles, Claymore anti-personnel mines, small arms and heavy vehicles, Reuters writes. They are expected to be transferred from US military stocks.
That amount is expected to not include military aid Additional ATACMS long-range missilesAccording to the release.
The Biden administration still has about five billion dollars in U.S. reserves in the military aid budget approved by Congress last year. The latest such package was announced by the US last week In the amount of 150 million Euros.
Joe Biden is trying to convince the US Congress to help both Ukraine and Israel, and approve a new $106 billion aid package that includes more than $61 billion in funding for Ukraine.
But the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, is pushing for aid packages for Ukraine and Israel. Considered separately by Congress.
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