US may soon announce another military aid package for Ukraine – White House

Tuesday, 31 January 2023, 19:21

The White House said that the United States may soon announce the provision of another package of military assistance to Ukraine.

Source: European Pravda; Olivia Dalton, White House spokeswoman on briefing on 31 January.

"I expect that we will soon announce additional security assistance (for Ukraine)," she said.

Commenting on the words of US President Joe Biden about the refusal to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, the White House representative only recalled the billions of dollars of aid already transferred to Kyiv.

The last package of US military assistance to Ukraine was allocated on 25 January. In it, the Ukrainian side will receive 31 American M1 Abrams tanks for the first time ever, as well as relevant equipment and hardware for their maintenance.

In total, according to the presidential Drawdown Authority mechanism, the United States handed over thirty packages of military assistance to Ukraine. The volume of the largest one amounted to more than US$ 3,000,000,000.

Since the beginning of a full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022T, the total US military assistance to Ukraine already exceeds  $26.7 billion.

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