The United States is set to send a new package of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine, to assist in its war with Russia.
The Department of Defense announced the military assistance package, which it valued at $250 million, in a Sept. 6 press statement.
The military assistance package draws from the Presidential Drawdown Authority, an account the president may pull from to quickly divert military equipment from U.S. ordnance to a foreign country in a time of emergency. The Friday announcement marked the 65th time since August 2021 that the Biden administration has drawn from U.S. weapons stores to assist Ukrainian forces.
The assistance package includes RIM-7 and Stinger air defense missiles. The package also includes 155mm and 105mm shells for tube artillery systems, and ammunition for the high mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS) which the United States has sent to Ukraine. The package also provides munitions for tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided (TOW) anti-tank missile launchers, as well as Javelin and AT-4 anti-tank launchers.