The new US aid package worth $800 million will include ammunition for the HIMARS MLRS. Macron said that France will give Ukraine six Caesar artillery mounts “Biden announced an $800 million military aid package to Ukraine” />
The United States will allocate an additional $800 million military aid package to Ukraine, which will include modern air defense systems. This was announced during a press conference after the NATO summit in Madrid by US President Joe Biden, The Hill reports.
The military assistance package will also include anti-battery radars, artillery and ammunition, including HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), which the United States is already supplying to Ukraine (on June 1, the Pentagon announced that it was transferring five MLRS capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 80 km to Kiev , and shells for them; they arrived in the country on June 23) Biden added that other countries will supply MLRS to Kyiv.
French President Emmanuel Macron also announced an increase in aid to Ukraine, Reuters reports. Paris to supply Kyiv with six more Cesar self-propelled artillery mounts.
Earlier this week, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced that the United States would send medium and long-range air defense systems to Ukraine, but did not specify what kind of weapons he was talking about.
According to the Pentagon, since the beginning of the Russian military operation, Washington has provided military assistance to Kyiv for $ 6.1 billion. In May, Biden signed a law that allows allocation for weapons and other support to Ukraine $40 billion.
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Russia has repeatedly accused the West of “pumping” Ukraine with weapons and expressed concern about the planned supply of MLRS. In particular, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov suggested that this would increase the risk of strikes against Russian cities. Both Washington and Kyiv ruled out such a development of events.
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