The United States will ship Ukraine a brand new navy help package deal value $2 billion, a prime US official mentioned Thursday, a day earlier than the primary anniversary of Russia’s invasion.
“Today, the United States announced a further $2 billion in security assistance to Ukraine,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan mentioned on CNN.
He didn’t give particulars of the sorts of armaments to be anticipated within the package deal.
Sullivan, who accompanied President Joe Biden on a shock journey into Kyiv this week, mentioned US officers had been consistently deciding how “to give Ukraine the tools that it needs to win.”
He famous that whereas in Kyiv, Biden had delivered to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “an announcement of more artillery, more ammunition, more HIMARS,” along with earlier pledges of US armored automobiles and at a later date, tanks.
HIMARS are a US a number of rocket system that Ukrainian forces have used to devastating impact in opposition to the invading Russians. —Agence France-Presse
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