Biden to announce $800 million military aid package to Ukraine

the president of United States, Joe Bidenwill announce tomorrow, Wednesday, a new military aid package to Ukraine valued at 800 million dollars, a senior White House official told Efe.

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That package will bring to 1,000 million the aid announced by Washington only in the last week.

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According to the aforementioned official, since Biden arrived at the White House in January 2021, the United States has donated 2,000 million in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

Biden’s announcement will come on the same day that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to deliver a virtual speech before both houses of the US Congress, the second time he has addressed US lawmakers. in less than a month.

According to The Wall Street Journal, citing US officials, the aid package will include Javelin anti-tank missiles and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles.

The US Armed Forces have already supplied Ukraine with some 600 Stinger missiles and some 2,600 Javelin missiles, the aforementioned White House official told Efe.

The United States has those missiles in Europe and, in recent days, has been sending them to Ukraine overland from neighboring Poland and Romania.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the money to finance this new aid package is included in the spending package that Biden signed on Tuesday and that includes 13.6 billion dollars in humanitarian and military aid for Ukraine and Eastern Europe, to after the Russian invasion.

When he signed the law, the president announced that tomorrow, Wednesday, he would give more details about “what exactly the United States is doing in Ukraine,” and how the new funds will allow it to “rapidly intensify its response and help alleviate the suffering that the war” is causing. provoking in the Ukrainian people.

Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24 and began bombing major cities, causing more than three million refugees, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

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Source: Elcomercio

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