The United States will provide Ukraine with new military aid worth about $400 million “to help it defend itself against the relentless attacks” of Russia, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced on Wednesday, AFP, CNN and Agerpres reported.

The USA supplies new HIMARS systems to UkrainePhoto: Roman Koksarov / AP / Profimedia

The US official specified that the new package of military aid includes “additional weapons, ammunition and air defense equipment”, and they will come from the stocks of the US army.

According to details provided to CNN by a White House official, the package includes additional munitions for NASAMS anti-aircraft systems, 150 thermal imaging heavy machine guns to combat drones, additional munitions for HIMARS multiple rocket launcher systems, 200 155mm guided missiles, and more. equipment.

With this new aid, the military aid that Washington has offered to Ukraine since Joe Biden was president of the United States reaches about 19.7 billion dollars.

“We will continue to support Ukraine as long as it takes so that it can continue to defend itself and have as strong a position as possible at the negotiating table when the time is right” for talks, Anthony Blinken said.

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