The package was recently adopted by the US Congress and Joe Biden signed by It is financed from the $60.8 billion Ukraine budget.
The package includes, among other things
Patriot anti-aircraft missiles, artillery ammunition, drones, anti-drone weapons, air-to-air missiles for fighter jets, ammunition for long-range mobile missile systems, and surface-to-air missile systems.
Lloyd Austin the American defense minister can announce the package on Friday.
However, the equipment it may not arrive in Ukraine until years laterbecause they are not using the current stocks, but the Pentagon is signing contracts with American arms manufacturers to manufacture new equipment for Ukraine.
However, Washington alleviates the current serious lack of weapons and ammunition with an immediate aid: $1 billion worth of equipment is being sent to Ukraine. The United Kingdom also announced a military support package this week, including sending 1,600 missiles to the attacked country.
A Czech official confirmed to Politico that the first fruits of the Czech ammunition procurement initiative have arrived: the first 155 and 122 mm ammunition they can arrive in June to Ukraine.
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