The U.S. Division of Protection (DoD) broadcasts the Biden Administration’s dedication of $3.075 billion in extra safety help for Ukraine. This contains the authorisation of a Presidential Drawdown of safety help valued at as much as $2.85 billion to fulfill Ukraine’s essential safety and defence wants, in addition to the Division of State’s announcement of $225 million in Overseas Navy Financing to contribute to the long-term capability and modernisation of Ukraine’s navy. The Presidential Drawdown is the twenty-ninth such drawdown of apparatus from DoD inventories for Ukraine that the Biden Administration has authorised since August 2021. The Bradley infantry preventing automobiles and different armoured automobiles and artillery methods will complement the latest dedication of fight automobiles to Ukraine by Germany and France. DoD additionally welcomes Germany’s dedication to hitch america in supporting Ukraine’s pressing requirement for air defence capabilities by additionally supplying one Patriot air defence battery to Ukraine.
Capabilities on this package deal embody:
50 Bradley infantry preventing automobiles with 500 TOW anti-tank missiles and 250,000 rounds of 25mm ammunition;
100 M113 Armoured Personnel Carriers;
55 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Automobiles (MRAPs);
138 Excessive Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Automobiles (HMMWVs);
18 155mm self-propelled Howitzers and 18 ammunition assist automobiles;
70,000 155mm artillery rounds;
500 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds;
1,200 155mm rounds of Distant Anti-Armour Mine (RAAM) Methods;
36 105mm towed Howitzers and 95,000 105mm artillery rounds;
10,000 120mm mortar rounds;
Further ammunition for Excessive Mobility Artillery Rocket Methods (HIMARS);
RIM-7 missiles for air defence;
4,000 Zuni plane rockets;
Roughly 2,000 anti-armour rockets;
Sniper rifles, machine weapons, and ammunition for grenade launchers and small arms;
Claymore anti-personnel munitions;
Evening imaginative and prescient units and optics;
Spare elements and different area gear.
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The Biden Administration will proceed to encourage Allies and companions to make extra donations of air defence methods, artillery, fight automobiles, and different essential capabilities to assist Ukraine in defence of its sovereignty and territorial integrity for so long as it takes. Towards that finish, the Division of State additionally introduced as we speak $682 million in extra Overseas Navy Financing to incentivise and backfill donations of navy gear to Ukraine by Allies and companions. In complete, america has dedicated greater than $24.9 billion in safety help to Ukraine because the starting of the Biden Administration. Since 2014, america has dedicated greater than $27 billion in safety help to Ukraine and greater than $24.2 billion because the starting of Russia’s unprovoked and brutal invasion on February 24.
