US President Joe Biden has announced in a statement the allocation of about $2.5 billion in military aid to Ukraine.

Biden noted that this new assistance for the Armed Forces of Ukraine includes “an additional $1.25 billion drawdown package for the Ukrainian military and a $1.22 billion Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) package.”

This US aid includes as well "longer-term supplies of air defense, artillery, and other critical weapons systems."

Biden said he directed his administration to “continue surging as much assistance to Ukraine as quickly as possible—including drawing down older U.S. equipment for Ukraine, rapidly delivering it to the battlefield, and then revitalizing the U.S. defense industrial base to modernize and replenish our stockpiles with new weapons.”