“Joe Biden’s administration will not have time to send military aid to Ukraine with all the funds approved by Congress before the end of his term of office in January 2025, and part of the corresponding powers will pass to Donald Trump’s team.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Joe Biden’s administration will not have time to send military aid to Ukraine with all the funds approved by Congress before the end of his term of office in January 2025, and part of the corresponding powers will pass to Donald Trump’s team.
Source: this was learned by The Wall Street Journal from interlocutors in the White House and Congress, writes “European Truth”
Details: Currently, the Biden administration has more than $6.5 billion to transfer equipment to Ukraine from warehouses and reserves of the US military, which it hoped to use in full before the end of the mandate on January 20.
But, according to the WSJ, the Pentagon says that they have reached the limit of weapons that they can send to Ukraine every month without harming their own combat capability, and they are also facing logistical problems in delivering weapons to Ukrainian forces.
According to calculations, in order to have time to spend all the funds, the US would have to send weapons to Ukraine in the amount of more than $110 million every day – that is, almost $3 billion during December-January. A WSJ congressional source says “it’s impossible.”
The newspaper’s source in the Pentagon says that the US is currently planning to transfer $500 to $750 million a month in weapons from its stockpile to Ukraine. These shipments will mostly contain munitions and artillery, which are easier to transport – heavier equipment can take months to arrive.
The unused funds will thus be at the disposal of the future administration of Donald Trump. Currently, it is not known what he will do with arms supplies to Ukraine.
In addition to financing supplies from US military warehouses, the Biden administration also has more than $2 billion to finance long-term arms contracts for Kyiv. A WSJ insider at the Pentagon says they are looking to contract “as much of that money as possible” by January 20.
In addition, the White House still has a little less than $5 billion dollars allocated by Congress for the purchase of new weapons to replenish the American stockpile. According to the WSJ, the Biden administration hopes to contract these funds in full by the end of the term.
Earlier it was reported that US President Joe Biden asked the Congress to allocate another $24 billion for military aid to Ukraine and the replenishment of American weapons that were transferred to Kyiv.
But the future composition of the Congress, which will be dominated by Republicans, is cool to this request, writes The Wall Street Journal.