DOD announces $1.7B Ukraine aid package

The Defense Department announced a $1.7 billion military aid package for Ukraine that will immediately transfer some U.S. weapons to the battlefield.

A Presidential Drawdown Authority action valued at up to $200 million includes air defense interceptors, munitions for rocket systems and artillery as well as anti-tank weapons, according to DOD.

Meanwhile, $1.5 billion is being put on contract via the Ukraine Security Initiative to provide long-term military assistance to include:

• Munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS)
• Short- and medium-range air defense munitions;
• RIM-7 missiles for air defense;
• Electronic Warfare equipment;
• Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
• 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds;
• 120mm mortar rounds;
• Precision aerial munitions;
• Tube-Launched, Optically Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
• Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems;
• Small arms;
• Explosives material and demolitions equipment and munitions;
• Secure communications systems;
• Commercial satellite imagery services; and
• Spare parts, maintenance and sustainment support and other ancillary equipment.

“This is the Biden Administration's twentieth USAI package and sixty-second tranche of equipment to be provided from DOD inventories for Ukraine and since August 2021,” DOD said.