WASHINGTON, Sep. 6 (The Kyiv Independent) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Sept. 6 said Washington would offer Ukraine with an additional army useful resource package deal well worth $250 million.
"I'm thrilled to say that President (Joe) Biden will announce nowadays an extra $250 million protection help package for Ukraine," Austin said at some point of the 24th assembly of the Ramstein group in Germany.
"It will surge in greater competencies to meet Ukraine's evolving necessities." Austin did no longer unveil the exact contents of the new bundle.
For the primary time in many months, President Volodymyr Zelensky is attending the Ukraine Contact Defense Group assembly in character to foyer for quicker aid deliveries, particularly air defense and long-range fingers.
Zelensky has repeatedly said that while he is thankful for the pledged help, specifically the $61 billion useful resource invoice authorized by using U.S. Congress in April, the useful resource is trickling in too slowly.
The new package deal become introduced amid concerns that kind of $6 billion inside the presidential drawdown authority (PDA), the chief device for providing defense articles to Kyiv, may also expire by the cease of the month.
Reuters mentioned that the Biden management is main pressing talks with U.S. Congress to save the price range before the looming deadline.
Washington unveiled its previous resource package deal well worth $125 million on Aug. 23, which includes HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) missiles, Javelins, anti-armor weaponry, counter-drone and counter-electronic structures, as well as 155 mm and 105 mm artillery shells.
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