On March 20, 2023, the US Department of Defense announced the provision of a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 350 million. Thus, the total amount of US military assistance officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 now amounts to about $ 32.5 billion, and the total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has reached $ 35.3 billion.
The 155 mm/39 towed M777 howitzer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine received from the USA is firing in the Kherson region, November 2022 (c) AnadoluThis 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 34th presidential package of military assistance to Ukraine under the PDA from August 2021.
According to the US Department of Defense, the new package of assistance to Ukraine included (quantitative parameters, as usual, have not been specified recently):
- 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 rounds of 25 mm caliber for automatic guns of M2 Bradley transferred infantry fighting vehicles;
- an unnamed number of AGM-88 HARM aircraft anti-radar missiles;
- an unnamed number of 81-mm and 60-mm mortars and ammunition for them;
- an unnamed number of AT4 disposable hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers;
- grenade launchers (anti-personnel), small arms and ammunition for them;
- heavy vehicle tankers;
- an unnamed number of river boats;
- subversive property:
- equipment and property for mine clearance;
- night vision devices, laser rangefinders and optical devices;
- control and diagnostic equipment for previously delivered equipment;
- spare parts and other field equipment.