During his visit to Kiev on February 20, 2023, US President Joe Biden announced the provision of a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 460 million. The total amount of US military aid officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 now amounts to about $ 29.8 billion, and the total amount of US military aid to Ukraine since 2014 has exceeded $32.5 billion.
Armored vehicle of advanced artillery observers and advanced aircraft M7A3 Bradley Fire Support Team (BFIST) from the 1st Armored Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division of the U.S. Army during NATO exercises in Romania at the Chinku range, 09/23/2021 (c) Joshua Cowden / U.S. ArmyThis package of military assistance is allocated by the orders of the US President within his administrative powers (Presidential Drawdown of Security Assistance - PDA) and is an operational allocation of property from the presence of the US Department of Defense.
This is the 32nd presidential package of military assistance to Ukraine under the PDA from August 2021.
It is reported that within the framework of this package, Ukraine should be provided with a PDA from the presence of the US Department of Defense:
- an unnamed additional number of GMLRS precision guided missiles for HIMARS missile systems;
- an unnamed number of 155 mm artillery rounds;
- an unnamed number of 120 mm mortar shells;
- four air target detection radars;
- an unnamed number of Javelin anti-tank missile systems;
- 2000 disposable hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers;
- four armored vehicles of advanced artillery observers and advanced aviation Bradley Fire Support Team (BFIST, - apparently, M7A2);
- two repair evacuation vehicles;
- Claymore directional anti-personnel mines;
- subversive property;
- night vision devices;
- protected means of tactical radio communication;
- medical equipment;
- spare parts and other field equipment.
In this assistance package, attention is drawn to the first promised provision to Ukraine of four armored vehicles of advanced artillery observers and advanced aircraft of the M7 Bradley Fire Support Team (BFIST) series based on Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. Earlier, 109 Bradley linear infantry fighting vehicles in the M2A2 ODS-SA version were allocated to Ukraine, the first batch of which in the amount of "more than 60 units" has already been delivered to Germany.
