The U.S. will provide $1.2 billion more in long-term military aid to Ukraine to further bolster its air defenses as Russia continues to pound Ukraine with drones, rockets and surface-to-air missiles, U.S. officials said Monday.
The aid package is expected to be announced on Tuesday and the money will be provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. Unlike the U.S. equipment, weapons and ammunition that are more frequently sent to Ukraine from Pentagon stocks — so they can be delivered quickly — this money is to be spent over the coming months or even years to ensure Ukraine’s future security needs.
The assistance initiative will fund HAWK air-defense systems, air-defense munitions and drones for air defense. It will also buy artillery, rockets, satellite imagery assistance, and funding for ongoing maintenance and spare parts for a variety of systems, according to the officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the aid package has not yet been formally announced.
Including this package, the U.S. has provided Ukraine nearly $37 billion in military aid since Russia invaded in February 2022.
The decision comes as Ukraine prepares to launch a spring offensive against Russian forces, with air defense a persistent issue.
Ukraine’s air defenses shot down 35 Iranian-made drones over Kyiv in Russia’s latest nighttime assault, officials said Monday. Wreckage from a drone struck a two-story apartment building in Kyiv’s western Svyatoshynskyi district, while other debris struck a car parked nearby, setting it on fire, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a Telegram post.
Russian shelling of 127 targets across northern, southern and eastern parts of Ukraine killed three civilians, the Ukrainian defense ministry said.
Facing economic sanctions and limits on its supply chains due to its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has routinely turned to Iran’s Shahed drones to bolster its firepower. And U.S. aid packages — including more immediate military weapons and support — have included systems to shoot down and otherwise defeat the drones.
(AP)
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dumb americans. why help the nazis?
the US roads and subway is 3rd world like but there are always billions for hunter to serve on another board in ukraine
@knucker America is a nazis making machine, they financed Hitler, they made their (now lost) fortune from WW2, this is how they built that country, with blood on their hands.
“The US and the EU supported a coup in Ukraine and began to blindly justify any actions by the self-proclaimed authorities in Kiev, who embarked on a course of putting down by force that part of the Ukrainian people which rejected attempts to impose an unconstitutional order on the whole country, which wanted to defend their right to their native language, culture and history.
It’s called encouraging negationism!
More billions wasted on this vicious, evil country, Hitler’s worst collaborators. Hope Putin is victorious. YWN, expose Emet of what Bandera did to Am Yisroel instead of fake, revisionist news.
Better to stop Sino-Russian imperialism with Ukrainian blood than with American blood. We give the Ukrainians money, let them test our theories of weapons and tactics in a conventional war (something the US hasn’t fought since the boomers were still in diapers), and not getting American soldiers killed. If Ukraine loses, Putin will move on to reclaim his “lost” colonies which will trigger the NATO Article 5, meaning World War III (and similarly, China will reclaim Taiwan, which at best will mean an end to peaceful commercial relations with China, if not full scale war).
Ukraine is home to between 56,000 and 140,000 Jews, making it the fourth largest Jewish community in Europe and the eleventh largest in the world.
the Russian unprovoked imperialist attack on Ukraine is killing the Ukrainian Jews today including Russian Jews drafted into the Russian army.