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In a final push before the impending Trump administration, biden’s 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 for the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems and the HAWK air defense system. The package will also include Stinger missiles and 155mm and 105mm artillery shells.
Officials are expected to make the announcement Monday, the Associated Press reported.
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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 came after Biden announced a $988 million relief package earlier this month. to Ukraine to ensure that “it has the tools it needs to prevail in its fight against Russian aggression.”
“This administration has made its decision. And so has a bipartisan coalition in Congress. The next administration must make its own decision,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said earlier during a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. “But, from this library, from this podium, I am sure that President Reagan “I would have been on the side of Ukraine, of American security and of human freedom.”
French President Emmanuel Macron (center), 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 the Notre Dame cathedral restored after the 2019 fire. (SARAH MEYSSONNIER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The Biden administration has pledged to provide Ukraine with as much aid as possible before Trump takes office in January.
During the campaign, President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance He sharply criticized the Biden administration’s support for Ukraine after the 2022 Russian 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 cede lands Russia had seized and establish a demilitarized zone, a proposal Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy flatly rejected.
Since the campaign trial, Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy while at a ceremony commemorating the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Saturday after a devastating fire there in 2019.
Ukrainian servicemen from the 24th Brigade are seen with small arms 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, House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected an administration request for Congress to authorize $24 billion in additional funding.
“It’s not for Joe Biden to make that decision now,” Johnson said earlier. “We have a newly elected president and we’re going to wait and follow the direction of the new commander in chief on all of that. So I don’t expect any funding to come to Ukraine now.”
