The Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine

On Monday, the pentagon announced additional security assistance support to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs as part of the surge of security assistance the President directed to put Ukraine in the best possible position.

This includes the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown Authority package, which has an estimated value of $1.25 billion, to provide Ukraine additional capabilities to meet its most urgent needs, including: missiles for air defense; munitions for rocket systems and artillery; and anti-tank weapons.

In addition, the pentagon announced an approximately $1.22 billion Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative package to provide Ukraine with additional air defense, air-to-ground, Unmanned Aerial Systems, and other capabilities.

The capabilities in this announcement include:

•  Munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);
  •    HAWK air defense munitions;
  •    Stinger missiles;
  •    Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (c-UAS) munitions;
  •    Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
  •    155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition;
  •    Air-to-ground munitions;
  •    High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs);
  •    Unmanned Aerials Systems (UAS);
  •    Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems;
  •    Tube-launched, Optically guided, Wire-tracked (TOW) missiles;
  •    Small arms and ammunition and grenades;
  •    Demolitions equipment and munitions;
  •    Secure communications equipment;
  •    Commercial satellite imagery services;
  •    Medical equipment;
  •    Clothing and individual equipment; and
  •    Spare parts, maintenance and sustainment support, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation.

This is the Biden Administration’s twenty-third package and seventy-third tranche of equipment to be provided from the pentagon inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.