US Announces New $400 Military Aid Package For Ukraine

The United States connected Friday announced a caller $400 cardinal subject assistance package for Kyiv arsenic Russia launched a astonishment crushed violative successful northeast Ukraine.

It is nan 3rd package for Ukraine successful little than 3 weeks, pursuing 2 successful precocious April weighted astatine a full of $7 cardinal arsenic Washington seeks to dress up for months successful which it provided only constricted assistance to Kyiv.

In a memo released by nan White House, President Joe Biden authorized "up to $400 cardinal successful defense articles and services of nan Department of Defense, and subject acquisition and training, to supply assistance to Ukraine."

The memo did not supply specifications connected nan assistance package, which was announced nan aforesaid time that Russia upped nan unit connected Kyiv pinch a crushed violative into Ukraine's Kharkiv region, which President Volodymyr Zelensky said sparked a "fierce battle."

The United States has been a cardinal subject backer of Ukraine, committing much than $44 cardinal successful weapons, ammunition and different information assistance since Russia launched its full-scale penetration successful February 2022.

But anterior to April 24, Washington had announced caller assistance for Ukraine connected conscionable 1 different juncture this year, a $300 cardinal package successful March that was only made imaginable by utilizing money that nan Pentagon had saved connected different purchases.

Congress had not approved large-scale backing for Kyiv for astir a twelvemonth and a half, but yet took action aft months of acrimonious statement among lawmakers complete really aliases moreover whether to thief Ukraine take sides itself.

The US House of Representatives connected April 20 approved authorities authorizing $95 cardinal successful assistance funding, including $61 cardinal for Ukraine, while nan Senate passed nan measurement connected April 23 and Biden signed it into rule nan pursuing day.

Washington announced a $1 cardinal package of subject assistance drawn from American stocks soon aft Biden signed nan legislation, and followed that up a fewer days later pinch $6 cardinal successful information assistance that will beryllium procured from nan defense industry.

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