US President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday informed the Congress of its intention to green-light the export of defense-related products to Ukraine through direct commercial sales (DCS) of $50 million or more, diplomatic sources said, Kyiv Post reports.

The $50 million sale license notice was submitted to Congress via the Arms Export Control Act, a law that authorizes US Presidents to control the import and export of defense articles and services, according to formal notice sent to the Congress from the State Department’s Legislative Affairs office

The proposed sale covers the export of defense articles, including technical data, and defense services to Ukraine.

The permission is the first of its kind since Trump returned to the White House over 100 days ago.

From 2015 through 2023, the US had quietly authorized the permanent export of over $1.6 billion in defense articles and services to Ukraine via DCS.

“All DCS are quiet; they don’t get announced publicly like Foreign Military Sales,” Colby Badhwar, security assistance analyst at Tochnyi, a research group, told Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent. “The news here is basically that it [US arms sales] is continuing, despite everyone predicting that Trump would cut Ukraine off completely.”