The Department of Defense (DoD) has authorized a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $675 million to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs. This authorization is the Biden Administration’s twentieth drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.

Capabilities in this package include:

Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
Four 105mm Howitzers and 36,000 105mm artillery rounds;
Additional High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARM);
100 Armored High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV);
1.5 million rounds of small arms ammunition;
More than 5,000 anti-armor systems;
1,000 155mm rounds of Remote Anti-Armor Mine (RAAM) Systems;
Additional grenade launchers and small arms;
50 armored medical treatment vehicles;
Night vision devices and other field equipment.

In addition, State Department notified Congress of our intent to make $2 billion available in long-term investments in Foreign Military Financing: $1 billion to bolster the security of Ukraine and $1 billion for 18 of Ukraine’s regional neighbors.

In total, the United States has committed approximately $15.2 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since January 2021. Since 2014, the United States has committed more than $17.2 billion in security assistance to Ukraine and more than $14.5 billion since the beginning of Russia’s unprovoked and brutal invasion on February 24.

Editor's note: Didn't a number of our service members just take large pay cuts?   back...