The United States Department of Defense announced additional security assistance to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs. The package will be provided under the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which means that the weapons are transferred directly from reserves.
As unofficially reported earlier, the package includes armored vehicles: 15 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and 10 Stryker armored personnel carriers. However, it is necessary to recall that the United States has already transferred 109 Bradley vehicles and 90 Stryker vehicles to Ukraine in total.
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Moreover, the assistance package includes additional missiles for the NASAMSs, HIMARSs and TOW anti-tank missile systems.
An undisclosed quantity of Stinger man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), Javelin anti-tank missile systems, AT-4 anti-tank grenade launchers, as well as an undisclosed quantity of 155 mm and 105 mm ammunition, along with 22 million small arms ammunition and hand grenades, are being transferred. Explosive devices for creating passages through engineering barriers, communication equipment, spare parts and other equipment are also present.
The $325 million assistance package from the United States can be summarized as follows:
- additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);
- Stinger anti-aircraft systems;
- additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
- 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds;
- 15 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles;
- 10 Stryker Armored Personnel Carriers;
- Javelin anti-armor systems;
- Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
- AT-4 anti-armor systems;
- over 22 million rounds of small arms ammunition and grenades;
- demolition munitions for obstacle clearing;
- tactical secure communications support equipment;
- spare parts and other field equipment.
It should be noted that overall, Washington has allocated weaponry worth over $40 billion.
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