“According to US officials, the administration still has more than $6.5 billion left”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
It is noted that the use of the remaining funds will be at the discretion of the newly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump.
According to American officials, the administration still has more than 6.5 billion dollars, which allows the US Department of Defense to transfer weapons and equipment to Ukraine from its own stockpiles.
The Pentagon has reached a limit on the number of weapons it can send to Ukraine each month without compromising its own combat capability, and is facing logistical challenges in delivering weapons to Kyiv’s forces, sources told the WSJ.
On April 20, the House of Representatives of the US Congress approved the draft law on national security, which provides military aid for Ukraine, Israel and other US allies in the amount of 95 billion dollars, in particular, for Ukraine in the amount of about 61 billion dollars.
Read also: Biden asks the US Congress for another 24 billion dollars in aid to Ukraine – Politico
The day before, Politico wrote that US President Joe Biden secretly asked Congress for another $24 billion in aid to Ukraine. According to the publication, 16 billion dollars will be used to replenish the stocks of American weapons in Ukraine. Another eight billion dollars is proposed to be allocated to the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), under which the Pentagon contracts with manufacturers, rather than providing equipment and weapons directly from its warehouses.
Politico rates the chances of congressional approval of the request as “slight.”
After the victory of Donald Trump in the presidential elections, the Biden administration accelerated the sending of military aid to Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal wrote. White House officials fear that the new administration will cut supplies in an effort to push Ukraine into negotiations.
As part of strengthening support for Ukraine before Trump’s inauguration, which is scheduled for January 20, Biden gave permission to Kyiv to use ATACMS long-range missiles against targets on the territory of Russia, authorized the provision of anti-personnel mines, wrote off half of the loan in the amount of 4.65 billion dollars, and also introduced sanctions against Gazprombank, which, according to Washington, Russia uses to purchase military equipment, Bloomberg pointed out.