U.S. rolls out new $200M defense aid package for Ukraine

The Joe Biden Administration announced a new package of security assistance for Ukraine in the amount of up to $200 million under the Presidential Drawdown Authority.

That’s according to the Pentagon press service, Ukrinform reports.

Security assistance will include air defense interceptors; munitions for rocket systems and artillery; and anti-tank weapons.

In addition, DoD announced a significant package of support using approximately $1.5 billion in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) funds. This package includes capabilities to augment Ukraine's air defenses, fires, and anti-tank weapons, as well as funding to sustain equipment previously committed by the United States.

Among the items specified in the list of equipment set to be delivered are munitions for NASAMS, ammunition for HIMARS, RIM-7 missiles for air defense, e-warfare equipment, short- and medium-range air defense munitions, 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds, 120mm mortar rounds, precision aerial munitions, and other items.

This is the Biden Administration's twentieth USAI package and sixty-second tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine and since August 2021.