Shortly after meeting Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal in Washington, President Joe Biden announced a new $800M package of military assistance to Ukraine Thursday.
“We’re in a critical window of time now where Russian forces are going to set the stage for the next phase of this war,” Biden said. “The United States and our partners and allies are moving as fast as possible to continue to provide Ukraine with the equipment it needs, its forces need, to defend its nation.”
Although he said that providing Ukraine with the heavy weaponry was made at a “record speed”, Biden acknowledged the latest package has “almost exhausted the drawdown authority” allowed by Congress in the spending bill.
“In order to sustain Ukraine for the duration of this fight, next week I will have to send to Congress a supplemental budget request to keep weapons and ammunition flowing without interruption.”
President Biden also launched the United for Ukraine program whose humanitarian bid is to expedite the migration process from Europe to the US for Ukrainian refugees who have an American sponsor and will take up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
