PoliticsWar The US will present Ukraine with a $1.2B navy support bundle; Trump plans to proceed arms deliveries. Monday, December 23, 2024

The Biden administration will announce its last Ukraine Safety Help Initiative (USAI) bundle within the coming days, utilizing the remaining funds which were reserved to buy new weapons for Kyiv. The bundle, value about $1.2B, will possible embrace interceptors for air protection and artillery ammunition. Underneath the USAI program, navy tools is bought from business or companions, not from American shares. Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder mentioned that Washington goals to make use of as a lot as attainable of the allotted $6.7B by the top of Biden’s time period and rapidly ship weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Though, as FT sources reported, US President-elect Donald Trump plans to take care of provides of American weapons to Ukraine after his inauguration. Trump nonetheless believes that Ukraine ought to by no means turn out to be a member of NATO and needs a right away finish to the battle, however he believes that supplying weapons to Kyiv after a ceasefire will guarantee “peace by means of power.”