Volunteers in Ukraine have teamed up with the army to help with land mines, scattered across roads, fields and cities
instead of "depreciated value" to tabulate the billions' worth of ammunition, missiles and other equipment sent to Ukraine.
Ukraine needs weaponry that can be shipped from U.S. stocks in a matter of days or weeks so it can continue to repel Russia's invasion. The accounting error works to Kyiv's benefit because more equipment can be sent. "I want to thank the United States today for the new package. Munitions for Patriots, for HIMARS, artillery, Javelins and more. These are much-needed things," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his evening address on Monday.Beginning to use these discovered funds is significant because they represent the last of the previously congressionally authorized $25.5 billion worth of Presidential Drawdown Authority the administration can utilize to ship weapons from U.S.
Washington is currently working on a supplemental budget request to continue to aid Kyiv, the U.S. officials said. Monday's announcement of $200 million would be the first tranche of a $6.2 billion windfall of previously authorized Presidential Drawdown Authority , the officials said.Our Standards:
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