Biden’s Defense Department Announces New Multibillion Dollar Aid Packages for Ukraine

The Department of Defense (DoD) announced two arms packages for Ukraine Monday, for a total of $2.47 billion.

The first of the two, the Presidential Drawdown Authority package, with an “estimated value” of $1.25 billion, is intended to “provide Ukraine with additional capabilities to meet its most pressing needs, including: air defense missiles; munitions for rocket and artillery systems; and anti-tank weapons,” the DoD said in a press release.

“Additionally, DoD announced an approximately $1.22 billion Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) package to provide Ukraine with additional air defense, unmanned aerial systems, and other capabilities to combat the “Russian aggression”.

Help packages come as a monitoring of the national debt it stands at more than $36 trillion as of December 26.

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Ukrainian servicemen take part in a training exercise in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on December 15, 2024. (Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The DoD described the capabilities of the packages, including missile systems, missiles, ammunition, ammunition, anti-armor systems, medical equipment and more.

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President Biden welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on December 21, 2022. The Biden administration announced billions in security aid to ‘Ukraine on December 30, 2024. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

The Defense Department announced two arms packages for Ukraine on Monday, totaling $2.47 billion. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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“This is the one The Biden administration the twenty-third USAI package and the seventy-third tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine beginning in August 2021,” the statement said.

“The United States continues to work together with some 50 allies and partners through the Ukraine Defense Contact Group and its associated capability coalitions to provide the support Ukraine needs to prevail in its fight against Russian aggression.” .

FOX News’ Eric Revell and Liz Friden contributed to this report.