Politico: US to announce another $600 million military aid package to Ukraine

The US may announce another $600 million military aid package for Ukraine this week. informed September 13 newspaper Politico, citing an unnamed congressional official.

The publication clarifies that the delivery will be similar to that previously agreed in the amount of $ 675 million. The fact that the US Department of Defense will use its powers in September for $ 1.3 billion, department officials previously notified Congress. Armaments and equipment will be supplied to Kyiv from the stocks of the United States.

At the end of August, United States President Joe Biden announced a $2.98 billion aid package for Ukraine. This tranche is expected to allow Ukraine to purchase air defense systems, artillery systems, various ammunition, drones and radars to ensure “long-term self-defense.” At the beginning of September he approved the allocation of a $675 million military aid package to Ukraine. Since the beginning of the special operation, the United States has supplied Ukraine with 47,000 tons of weapons and military equipment, wrote Interfax, citing Pentagon data.

As before calculated Vedomosti, according to Defensenews.com and Tradingview.com, against the backdrop of the conflict in Ukraine and the rearmament of Europe, Western military-industrial corporations are going to increase revenue to $475 billion by 2025. This is $97 billion, or 26%, more than in 2021, when revenues were $378 billion.

The total military assistance to Ukraine from 2014 to 2022, which has already been provided or announced, is $ 44 billion, or four of the country’s defense budget for 2022, follows from the data of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

Deliveries of weapons to Kyiv began long before the special operation, and primarily from the United States. Under Barack Obama in 2014–2015 there were three tranches of military assistance totaling $80 million, under Donald Trump (2017-2020) – seven packages worth $2.06 billion. Under Joe Biden, Ukraine has already been allocated 20 military assistance packages worth $10.43 billion, of which $590 million – in 2021, $9.84 billion in 2022

Russian authorities have repeatedly condemned Western countries for supplying weapons to Ukraine. Earlier, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin in his Telegram channel declaredthat Washington, while continuing to supply military aid to Kyiv and “continuing the war to the last Ukrainian”, is greatly mistaken in that it will not affect the United States. Volodin accused the United States of inaction in relation to the situation around the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is being subjected to strikes “threatening a nuclear catastrophe.” Instead, the United States continues to supply the Kyiv regime with weapons, “pushing it to new crimes,” the speaker of the State Duma emphasized.