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In a final push ahead of the impending Trump administration, the Biden White House is scheduled to announce an additional $1.25 billion in military assistance to Ukraine.
The large aid package includes a significant number of munitions, including advanced domestic surface-to-air missile systems and the HAWK air defense system. The package will also include Stinger missiles and 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds.
Officials are expected to make the announcement Monday, the Associated Press reported.
President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands after signing a security agreement on the sidelines of the G7 on June 13 in Savelletri, Italy. (AP/Alex Brandon)
The recent funding comes after Biden announced a $988 million aid package earlier this month in Ukraine to ensure that it “has the necessary tools to prevail in its fight against Russian aggression.”
“This administration has made its choice. And so has a bipartisan coalition in Congress. The next administration has to make its own choice,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said earlier during a speech at the Presidential Library Ronald Reagan of California. “But, from this library, from this podium, I’m sure President Reagan would have stood by Ukraine, American security and human freedom.”
French President Emmanuel Macron (C), US President-elect Donald Trump (L) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pose before a meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on December 7, 2024. Trump makes his first international trip since his electoral victory. preparing for a day of intense diplomacy before attending the reopening ceremony of Notre Dame Cathedral restored after the 2019 fire. (SARAH MEYSSONNIER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The Biden administration has pledged to give Ukraine as much aid as possible before Trump takes office in January.
During the campaign, President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance strongly criticized the Biden administration’s support for Ukraine after Russia’s 2022 invasion.
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Trump also said he would end the war before even taking office without offering further details. Vance suggested earlier this year that the best way to end the war was for Ukraine to hand over land seized by Russia and establish a demilitarized zone, a proposal Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy flatly rejected.
From the campaign trial, Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy while at a ceremony marking the reopening of Notre Dame de Paris on Saturday after a devastating fire there in 2019.
Ukrainian soldiers from the 24th Small Arms Brigade are seen during a training exercise in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on December 15. (Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
This latest announcement marks the administration’s 22nd aid package through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.
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At the beginning of December, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson rejected an administration request that Congress authorize $24 billion in additional funding.
“It’s not Joe Biden’s place to make that decision now,” Johnson said earlier. “We have a newly elected president, and we’re going to wait and take the new commander in chief on all of this. So I don’t expect any funding from Ukraine now.”
