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Washington announced on Nov. 1 a new military aid package for Kyiv worth $425 million, according to a U.S. Defense Department press release.

The day prior, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a joint press conference that the U.S. would "soon" provide Ukraine with another aid package in light of North Korean troops' involvement in Russia's war.

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The aid list includes munitions for NASAMS missile systems, Stinger missiles, ammunition for HIMARS rocket systems, tube-launched, optically tracked, and wire-guided (TOW) missiles, Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems, as well as 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Finger crossed and vote submitted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not if certain people on Lemmy have anything to say about it.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's more that zelensky just said that only a small portion of this year's aid was actually delivered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought he meant much of the aid that Congress allocated hadn't been spent, not that the shipments for stuff we did send were delayed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

"You do your job. You count on reserves, you count on special brigades, you count on such equipment. And if you get 10% of all the package (that) has already been voted on... it's not funny,"

https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-has-received-only-10-latest-approved-aid-us-zelenskiy-says-2024-10-30/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Right, so monthly shipments like this are not what is being delayed, its that fact that only 10% of the total allocation from Congress has been spent so far. But that also needs to last till next year so not totally unexpected but wish it was more around 20-30% since we used to do $1.5 billion a month regularly and this would've been a good time to make an impact.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That is like 1/200th of the US’ annual military budget. They can spare some more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

They can't. They're too busy trying to send as many weapons as possible to Israel instead and Ukraine doesn't have bipartisan support, so they're not a top priority.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 weeks ago

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