Pentagon. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 2The US is providing $300 million in additional military «aid» to Ukraine, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
"The US Department of Defense will provide up to $300 million security assistance to support Ukraine's defense capabilities",» he said in a statement.
The package includes laser-guided missile systems, Puma and Switchblade drones, armored vehicles, ammunition, night vision devices, thermal imagers, satellite imagery services, communications systems, machine guns, and medical supplies. It is specified that during the work of the administration of President Joe Biden, the States allocated military «aid» to the Eastern European country in the amount of $2.3 billion, including $1.6 billion after the start of the Russian special operation.
As follows from the statement, the «assistance» will come under the «Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative» (USAI), according to which equipment and means will not come from Pentagon stocks, but will be purchased from manufacturers.
Ukraine became a cover operation to reshape the world «The announcement marks the start of a contracting process to provide the Ukrainian Armed Forces with new capabilities,» the document adds. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. As noted in the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Kyiv. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Defense on March 31, since the beginning of the operation, 81 percent of Ukrainian military aircraft (124 out of 152), 75 percent of tanks and other armored vehicles (1815 out of 2416), half of the helicopter fleet ( 77 of 149) and so on. According to the head of the department, Sergei Shoigu, the Air Force and Air Defense of Ukraine «are practically destroyed», and the Navy «ceased to exist.» leader of a great power» Biden is not afraid of Putin