The Washington administration has notified Congress that it plans to complete the transfer to Kyiv of the $400 million in military aid previously approved by US lawmakers no earlier than during the period from the beginning of October 2028 to the end of September 2029. Reuters reported this.

According to its sources, in May the Pentagon sent Congress a letter clarifying plans for spending the aforementioned funds. The document indicated that the US administration plans to complete the allocation of this aid in fiscal year 2029. In the United States, it ends at the end of September 2029. By law, the second term of current US leader Donald Trump as president of the United States is due to end in January 2029.

Some members of the US Congress, the publication notes, believed that the aid was being delivered too slowly and expressed dissatisfaction over this.

The report specifies that $200 million from the mentioned aid package is intended to be used to provide Ukraine with weapons and ammunition, about $100 million for various equipment and spare parts for it, and another $100 million for military cargo transportation services.

On July 21, US Senator Dick Durbin (Democrat of Illinois) said that the US administration is refusing to transfer $400 million in aid to Kyiv, even though it had been approved by Congress. At a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee, he noted that the decision on this would probably be made by the next US president. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was answering lawmakers’ questions at the hearing, essentially did not comment on Durbin’s words and did not deny them.

As US Senator Mitch McConnell (Republican of Kentucky) argued in his April 29 article in The Washington Post, the US Department of Defense is delaying the transfer to Ukraine of the military aid package approved by Congress at the time, with a total value of $400 million. According to McConnell, the military department also ignored corresponding requests from the relevant Senate committees. In the lawmaker’s view, responsibility for delaying decisions on the use of this military aid lies primarily with Pete Hegseth’s deputy for policy, Elbridge Colby.