{"id":288,"date":"2024-10-16T13:38:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukraine.bigny.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2024-10-19T13:41:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T13:41:49","slug":"biden-administration-announces-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukraine.bigny.com\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced additional security assistance to meet Ukraine&#8217;s critical security and defense needs.&nbsp; This announcement is the Biden Administration&#8217;s&nbsp;sixty-seventh tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.&nbsp; This Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package, which has an estimated value of $425 million, will provide Ukraine additional capabilities to meet its most urgent needs, including: air defense capabilities; air-to-ground weapons; munitions for rocket systems and artillery; armored vehicles; and anti-tank weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The capabilities in this announcement include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS):<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RIM-7 missiles and support for air defense;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stinger anti-aircraft missiles;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Air-to-ground munitions;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided (TOW) missiles;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Small arms and ammunition;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grenades, thermals, and training equipment;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Demolitions equipment and munitions; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spare parts, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States will continue to work together with some 50 Allies and partners through the Ukraine Defense Contact Group and its associated capability coalitions to meet Ukraine&#8217;s urgently needed battlefield requirements and defend against Russian aggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oct. 16, 2024\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/3937146\/biden-administration-announces-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine\/\">Defense.gov<\/a> ,  <a href=\"https:\/\/ukraine.bigny.com\/?p=288\">Ukraine.bigny.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukraine.bigny.com\/\"> American &#8211; Ukrainian News &#8211; USA and Ukraine immigration <br>on Ukraine.BigNY.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced additional security assistance to meet Ukraine&#8217;s critical security and defense needs.&nbsp; This announcement is the Biden Administration&#8217;s&nbsp;sixty-seventh tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.&nbsp; This Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package, which has an estimated value of $425 million, will provide Ukraine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa-gov-to-ukraine","category-usa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukraine.bigny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukraine.bigny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukraine.bigny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukraine.bigny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukraine.bigny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ukraine.bigny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/ukraine.bigny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukraine.bigny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukraine.bigny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukraine.bigny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}