Ukraine to receive $200 million in U.S. security aid, including air defence munitions – National | 24CA News
The United States mentioned on Monday it’ll ship Ukraine new safety help valued at US$200 million, together with air defence munitions, artillery rounds, and extra mine-clearing gear.
The help will even embrace anti-armour capabilities, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned in a press release.
Two U.S. officers informed Reuters final Monday that Washington would start to dole out US$6.2 billion of funds found after a Pentagon accounting error that overvalued billions of {dollars} of Ukraine assist.
In May, the Pentagon introduced it had mistakenly assigned a higher-than-warranted worth to the U.S. weaponry shipped to Kyiv when employees used “replacement value” as a substitute of “depreciated value” to tabulate the billions’ value of ammunition, missiles and different gear despatched to Ukraine.
Ukraine wants weaponry that may be shipped from U.S. shares in a matter of days or even weeks so it might proceed to repel Russia’s invasion. The accounting error works to Kyiv’s profit as a result of extra gear may be despatched.
“I want to thank the United States today for the new package. Munitions for Patriots, for HIMARS, artillery, Javelins and more. These are much-needed things,” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned in his night deal with on Monday.
“There will be even more work soon with our partners for the sake of defence,” he added.
Beginning to make use of these found funds is critical as a result of they characterize the final of the beforehand congressionally licensed US$25.5 billion value of Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) the administration can make the most of to ship weapons from U.S. shares within the occasion of an emergency, the U.S. officers mentioned.
Washington is presently engaged on a supplemental finances request to proceed to assist Kyiv, the U.S. officers mentioned.
Monday’s announcement of US$200 million can be the primary tranche of a $6.2 billion windfall of beforehand licensed Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), the officers mentioned.
-Reporting by Paul Grant; Editing by Ismail Shakil, Bernadette Baum and Conor Humphries
