The United States on Tuesday announced a new tranche of $2.6 billion in military aid to Ukraine, including Patriot anti-aircraft missiles and artillery ammunition. Missiles for HIMARS precision launchers and spare parts are also listed.
Of the total amount, 500 million is the cost of weapons in American warehouses, and 2.1 billion dollars – orders for the defense industry, the Ministry of Defense in Washington said in a statement, as reported by the France-Presse and Agerpres agencies.
So far, US military aid to Ukrainian forces it amounts to 35.1 billion dollars.
Ukraine is scrambling to get enough weapons from its Western backers to launch a counteroffensive in an attempt to retake territory captured by Russian forces last year.
On February 24 last year, Russia launched an unprovoked and unjustified aggression against neighboring Ukraine. Moscow constantly declares that it is conducting a “special military operation to de-Nazify” the neighboring country and protect the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine.
Kyiv has announced that before discussing a possible peace plan with Moscow, Russian troops must leave the entire territory of Ukraine, including the regions annexed last year and the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.
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