US to send new weapons package worth $300 million for Ukraine

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Source: Reuters

March 12, 2024 3:20 PM EDT


WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - The United States will send a new military aid package for Ukraine worth $300 million, President Joe Biden's administration said on Tuesday, the first such move in months as additional funds for Kyiv remain blocked by Republican leaders in Congress.

The White House has been scrambling to find ways to send more military assistance given the situation on the battlefield and the resistance to the funding from Republican hardliners.

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the funding was coming from unanticipated cost savings from Pentagon contracts and would be used for artillery rounds and munitions for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS). "This ammunition will keep Ukraine's guns firing for a period, but only a short period," Sullivan told reporters, adding it may only be helpful to Ukraine for a couple of weeks.

"It is nowhere near enough to meet Ukraine's battlefield needs and it will not prevent Ukraine from running out of ammunition," Sullivan said. The new weapons package was first reported by Reuters earlier on Tuesday.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-preparing-new-weapons-package-ukraine-officials-2024-03-12/

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US preparing new weapons package for Ukraine, officials say

March 12, 2024 12:50 PM EDT


WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - The United States is preparing a new military aid package for Ukraine that could be worth as much as $400 million, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday, the first such move in months as additional funds for Kyiv remain blocked by Republican leaders in Congress.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said an announcement was expected later on Tuesday.
One of the officials said that the funding for this package is from credits refunded to the Pentagon for recent purchases and is expected to contain artillery.

The U.S. Army, in particular, has been making huge purchases of munitions and vehicles to replenish stocks sent to Ukraine. The last drawdown was in December 2023 when funds to replenish stocks fell to zero.

The White House has been scrambling to find ways to send more military assistance given the situation on the battlefield and the resistance to the funding from Republican hardliners.

[Lovie777]

1. shithole's toadies won't budge..........

[not fooled]

3. Doesn't require permission from the russiapukes

Hope this is just one of many ways Joe can circumvent putin’s puppets in Congress.

[FredGarvin]

2. If only Ukraine had allies like Russia has

Like North Korea and Iran, they would be able to defend their country from genocidal Russians

[PortTack]

4. So stick it johnson and your shitty maga creeps!

[Igel]

5. And yet we won't keep up.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/russia-artillery-shell-production-us-europe-ukraine/index.html

(I didn't say "wouldn't be able to keep up." Our "industrial policy" isn't geared to defense but to politics. If you're green you're probably not in favor of encouraging large munitions operations--but we need them. Mothball and maintain them when not in use. But they take time to set up and in case of an attack we'd quickly go through a lot of remaining inventory.)

[EndlessWire]

6. I think that

based on the comments about our own funding to replenish stocks falling to zero, that they are endangering our own national security. I favor a slight shift to increasing production due to external threats, once we gain back the funding. I think that we absolutely must support Ukraine.

Those countries, the Baltics, have a sharper sense of their vulnerabilities than we do. They are very nervous. I favor stopping Putin in Ukraine to forestall the eventual war in those countries. Also, Moldova. Moldova's stolen land allegedly recently cried out for Russia to incorporate them, and Russia recently stated that some of the Baltics were subject to arrest due to the removal of Russian statutes. This is childish, but this is how Russia rolls. Those will be their excuses for future aggression.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Tough luck Pooty Poot