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The US government has announced additional security assistance for Ukraine to put the country in the “strongest possible position”.
Outgoing US President Joe Biden announced the 71st tranche of equipment to be provided from Department of Defense (DOD) inventories for Ukraine since August 2021 – to Ukraine’s critical security and defence needs.
The Presidential Drawdown Authority package, which has an estimated value of US$725 million, will provide Ukraine with additional capabilities to meet its most urgent needs.
Capabilities in this announcement include National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems munitions, Stinger missiles, counter-unmanned aerial systems munitions, High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems munitions, 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition, unmanned aerial systems, non-persistent land mines, Javelin and AT-4 anti-armour systems, small arms and ammunition, demolitions equipment and munitions, equipment to protect critical national infrastructure, spare parts, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation, as well as tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided missiles.
“As part of the surge in security assistance that President Biden announced on September 26 to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position, the Department of Defense today announced additional security assistance to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs,” according to the US government.
“The United States will continue to work together with some 50 allies and partners through the Ukraine Defense Contact Group and its associated capability coalitions to meet Ukraine’s urgently needed battlefield requirements and defend against Russian aggression.”
Earlier this month, on 2 December, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III discussed battlefield dynamics and US security assistance to Ukraine with Minister of Defence Rustem Umerov.
Austin reportedly condemned Russia’s recent barrage of missiles and unmanned aerial systems targeting Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure and its use of an intermediate-range ballistic missile in Ukraine.
Austin provided Minister Umerov with an update on the continued surge of US security assistance to Ukraine to provide the capabilities it needs to defend against Russian aggression.
