“This will allow Ukraine to acquire air defense systems, artillery systems and ammunition,” explained the American president.
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Significant financial support. The American president announced Wednesday, August 24, new military aid to Ukraine of nearly three billion dollars. “The United States of America is committed to supporting the people of Ukraine as they continue the struggle to defend their sovereignty, asserted Joe Biden in a press release. This will allow Ukraine to acquire air defense systems, artillery systems and ammunition … and radars to ensure that it can continue to defend itself in the long term.”
This new tranche of aid is exclusively composed of armaments ordered from the American defense industry which will only reach Ukraine in several months, even two or three years, underlined a senior Pentagon official.
It is intended to strengthen Ukraine’s defense capabilities in the medium term, not to help Ukrainian forces in their current counter-offensive efforts, as was the case with the latest tranche of aid announced last week. , explained to the press the number three of the American Department of Defense, Colin Kahl.
“The United States has now released more than $13.5 billion in military aid to Ukraine since Mr. Biden’s term began”highlighted Hake Kahl. Washington will thus order for the Ukrainian forces more than 300,000 shells compatible with NATO artillery systems, radars, but also Nasams anti-aircraft defense systems, surveillance drones and above all, for the first time , latest-generation Vampire anti-drone defense systems, which allow an approaching drone to be destroyed with precision-guided missiles.