The Pentagon announced on Wednesday a new $400 million weapons package for Ukraine, marking the 26th drawdown of equipment from US military stockpiles for the Ukrainians.
The package includes heavy machine guns meant to counter drones, ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), and munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASMS), an air defense system the US just began delivering to Ukraine.
According to the Pentagon, the package includes:
- Additional munitions for NASMS
- 150 heavy machine guns with thermal imagery sights to counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
- Additional ammunition for HIMARS
- 200 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds
- 10,000 120mm mortar rounds
- High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs)
- 150 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs)
- Over 100 light tactical vehicles
- Over 20,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition
- Over 200 generators
- Spare parts for 105mm Howitzers and other equipment
The $400 million is being sent to Ukraine through the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), which allows President Biden to send arms straight from US military stockpiles. According to the Pentagon, the US has pledged over $19 billion in military equipment for Ukraine since Russia invaded. That includes arms shipped using the PDA and equipment the US has said it will purchase for Kyiv, which takes longer to deliver.
Aid for Ukraine is still being pulled from the previous package that was approved in September. So far, the US has authorized about $67 billion in spending on the war, and the White House is asking Congress to approve a new massive aid package worth $37.7 billion.
The Pentagon on Wednesday also released a fact sheet detailing all of the arms the US has committed to Ukraine. The Biden administration is still holding out on some of the longer-range weapons Kyiv seeks over concerns of escalation.
“Money, money, money, MONEY!”
I was in my local grocery store today – they were SOLD OUT of large eggs, had medium eggs for * $10* a box. Even peanut butter and ramen doubled in price since this war inflation started. My salary certainly has not doubled since February. And yet… UNLIMITED money for war in Ukraine!!
no lettuce yesterday in my store outskirts of L.A. – no brocoli either.
and both of those are grown here in california.
bread = 75% mark-up in price.
way to go uncle sam.
$10 for a dozen eggs is insanity.
Out here in the sticks many people have chickens and they sell farm fresh eggs for $3 a dozen.
Crikey!
I get eggs at a local ranch. Large eggs now $11.99 for flat (18 eggs). Cereal (Cheerios) $5.49 for large (not family size). At least gas is below $6.
Holy crap, V….
More funds for Ukrainian criminals.
https://www.rt.com/russia/566935-they-robbed-ukraine/
Pentagonian leeches will soon drain the budgets of all capitalist and former colonial powers. At that point natural social evolution will fill the void. Will a temporary rise in government by thugs and gangs be worse than representative democracies?
Such blatant interventionism. Our rulers in America don’t even feel the need to explain and justify this outflow of American taxpayer dollars to a European conflict that does not concern us.
I wish that Russia would just wrap up this war already.
I’d argue that this conflict does concern us since we are the one who started it. Sad that we are the one keeping it going, though.
The Russian MOD is disarming NATO (Ukraine was disarmed in March), tank by tank, artillery by artillery, air defense by air defense. What they loose in the Ukraine, they loose for the final NATO global war.
Russia is inflicting a 10:1 kill ratio. And NATO overall has accumulated the following equipment losses;
333 Aircraft, 177 helicopters, 2558 UAV’s, 390 Anti Aircraft systems, 6791 tanks inc. APC’s, 902 multiple rocket launchers, 3616 rocket launchers and 7340 military automotive equipment.
well thats good to see, hopefully ukraine wins this war quickly and no more people are killed by the russians