On May 31, 2023, the US Department of Defense announced the provision of a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine totaling $ 300 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 more than $ 37.6 billion, and the total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has reached $40.5 billion.
The hull of the American PAC-3 CRI anti-missile missile from the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system that fell in Kiev during the repulse of a Russian missile strike on 05/16/2023 (c) social networks
The new package of military assistance to Ukraine 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 39th presidential package of military assistance to Ukraine under the PDA from August 2021.
As usual, since the beginning of 2023, the United States in most cases does not indicate the amount of ammunition and parts of weapons transferred to Ukraine. As part of this package, the PDA should be provided to Ukraine from the presence of the US Department of Defense:
- additional ammunition [anti-aircraft guided missiles and anti-missiles] for the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system;
- AIM-7 Sparrow guided missiles for use as anti-aircraft;
- Avenger short-range anti-aircraft missile systems;
- portable anti-aircraft missile systems Stinger;
- additional number of GMLRS precision guided missiles for HIMARS missile systems;
- 155-mm and 105-mm artillery shots;
- 105 mm tank shots;
- precision-guided aerial munitions [apparently guided JDAM aerial bombs];
- 127 mm unguided Zuni aircraft missiles;
- ammunition for unmanned aircraft systems [for the first time];
- disposable AT4 hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers;
- about 30 million cartridges for small arms;
- mine protection equipment and property;
- demolition charges for making passes;
- night vision devices;
- spare parts, generators and other field equipment.
