Reuters: the Trump administration pledged to provide Ukraine with $400 million in aid // Reuters: the United States did not include Patriot in the package of assistance to Ukraine
The White House has formalized legal obligations to distribute almost the entire amount of $400 million, which was allocated by Congress for military needs of Ukraine at the end of last year, Reuters reports, citing sources. The budget expired on Sept. 30, and if the U.S. government had not signed contracts before that date, the funding would have been formally withdrawn.
The White House has formalized legal obligations to distribute almost the entire amount of $400 million, which was allocated by Congress for military needs of Ukraine at the end of last year, Reuters reports, citing sources. The budget expired on Sept. 30, and if the U.S. government had not signed contracts before that date, the funding would have been formally withdrawn.
The government has signed contracts for $307 million, the rest of the amount is planned to be mastered by the end of September. The process of supplying weapons under this aid package will stretch until 2029.
The first deliveries started this month. They include offensive weapons and spare parts for armored vehicles. The list of weapons that the United States will supply to Ukraine does not include missiles for the Patriot air defense system, despite Kiev’s requests to provide them, one of the interlocutors of the agency said.
The money has caused controversy in Congress, with Democrats and some Republicans criticizing the Pentagon for delaying aid to Kiev. In July, a member of the Senate, Democrat Dick Durbin at a hearing on Capitol Hill said that the US administration refused to transfer additional military assistance approved by Congress to Ukraine. He said that Ukraine will not receive money until the next president comes to power in the United States.
