Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced an additional $725 million in military assistance to Ukraine following a massive Russian missile strike on Ukraine this week.
The announcement was made in a statement from Blinken, obtained by the Washington Examiner. The newest aid package is the 23rd since August of last year and brings the total amount of U.S. military aid to Ukraine to an unprecedented $18.3 billion since the beginning of the Biden administration. The statement announcing the newest aid package lists Russia’s recent missile strike and the recent United Nations condemnation of Russia’s annexation of eastern Ukrainian territories as justification.
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“In the wake of Russia’s brutal missile attacks on civilians across Ukraine, the mounting evidence of atrocities by Russia’s forces, and the firm and unequivocal rejection by 143 nations at the United Nations of Russia’s illegal attempted annexation of parts of Ukraine, the United States is offering additional military assistance to help Ukraine’s proud defenders protect their country,” the statement read.
Blinken said the list of weapons was “carefully calibrated to make the most difference on the battlefield for Ukraine.”
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The United States’s advanced Patriot missile defense system has shot up to the top of Ukraine’s wish list since the largest missile strike since the beginning of the war this week.
