On August 29, 2023, the US Department of Defense announced the provision of a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine totaling up to $ 250 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 $ 43.5 billion, and the total amount of US military assistance to Ukraine since 2014 has reached $ 45 billion.
Launch of the TOW anti-tank guided missile from the M2A2 ODS-SA Bradley infantry fighting vehicle received from the United States of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during combat operations in the Zaporozhye region, August 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 45th presidential package of military assistance to Ukraine under the PDA from August 2021.
As part of this package, the PDA should be provided to Ukraine from the presence of the US Department of Defense:
- old AIM-9M Sidewinder short-range air-to-air guided missiles for use as anti-aircraft missiles [presumably as part of NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems];
- additional number of GMLRS precision guided missiles for HIMARS missile systems;
- 105-mm and 155-mm artillery shots;
- Javelin anti-tank missile systems and "other anti-tank systems" and shots to them;
- TOW anti-tank guided missiles;
- 70 mm unguided Hydra-70 aircraft missiles;
- more than 3 million cartridges for small arms and hand grenades;
- armored medical vehicles and medical vehicles based on HMMWV vehicles;
- mine protection equipment;
- demolition charges for mine clearance;
- spare parts and other field equipment.
