{"id":48001,"date":"2022-05-06T16:56:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T23:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48001"},"modified":"2022-05-06T16:56:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T23:56:48","slug":"150-million-in-additional-u-s-military-assistance-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48001","title":{"rendered":"$150 Million in Additional U.S. Military Assistance for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>05\/06\/2022 06:01 PM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>More than two months into the Kremlin\u2019s unjustified and brutal war, it is impossible not to be moved by what the people of Ukraine have achieved. \u00a0It is also impossible not to believe that they will keep succeeding, because they have demonstrated that they have the will and skill to fight.\u00a0 Despite the suffering they have endured, and the widespread death and destruction that Russia\u2019s brutal and unprovoked war continues to inflict, Ukraine is and will continue to be a free and independent country.<\/p>\n<p>I am authorizing today, pursuant to a delegation from\u202fthe President, a drawdown to provide further immediate military assistance to Ukraine, valued at up to $150 million worth of additional arms and equipment from U.S. Department of Defense inventories. \u00a0This authorization is the ninth drawdown of arms, equipment, and supplies\u202ffrom Department of Defense inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.\u00a0 This brings total U.S. security assistance to Ukraine to approximately $3.8 billion in arms and equipment since Russia launched its brutal and unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24.<\/p>\n<p>We will continue to provide Ukraine the arms its forces are effectively using to defend their country and the freedom of their fellow citizens. \u00a0In addition to military assistance, we also continue to provide direct U.S. financial support to Ukraine, support for documenting evidence of Russia\u2019s atrocities against Ukraine\u2019s civilians, and measures to continue ratcheting up the pressure on Putin\u2019s crumbling economy.\u00a0 Taken together, these efforts will help strengthen Ukraine\u2019s position at the negotiating table while continuing to isolate Russia from the world until it ends its senseless war of choice on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, our Allies, and our partners are proud to stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine in their just cause \u00a0\u0336\u00a0 the defense of their country and their democracy. \u00a0Together, we will continue to support Ukraine\u2019s defense of its sovereignty and territorial integrity, and we will continue to fund humanitarian assistance for those in need.\u00a0 Ukraine won the battle for Kyiv and we will help Ukraine keep up the fight for as long as it takes. We stand united with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/06\/2022 06:01 PM EDT Antony J.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48002,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48001\/revisions\/48002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}