US announces extra $100 million in military aid to Ukraine

The United States on Tuesday announced that it will send $100 million in additional anti-armor weapons to pro-west Ukraine.

‘I have authorized, pursuant to a delegation from the President earlier today, the immediate drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $100 million to meet Ukraine’s urgent need for additional anti-armor systems,’ Blinken said in a statement.

He added that the ‘world has been shocked and appalled by the atrocities committed by Russia’s forces in Bucha and across Ukraine.’ 

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, in a separate statement, said that the extra funding would be used ‘to meet an urgent Ukrainian need for additional Javelin anti-armor systems.’

Ukrainians have been using the shoulder-launched missiles ‘so effectively to defend their country,’ he noted.

On April 1, the Pentagon announced an extra $300 million in military assistance.

Kirby said the latest tranche brought the US military aid to Ukraine to ‘more than $1.7 billion since the beginning of Russia’s premeditated and unprovoked invasion on February 24,’ and more than $2.4 billion since the beginning of US President Joe Biden’s term in office.

Russia began Ukraine invasion on February 24.

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