{"id":57451,"date":"2023-04-19T16:06:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T23:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57451"},"modified":"2023-04-19T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T23:06:04","slug":"additional-u-s-security-assistance-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57451","title":{"rendered":"Additional U.S. Security Assistance for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>04\/19\/2023 01:58 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>We will continue to stand with our Ukrainian partners in response to of Russia\u2019s continued war of aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Pursuant to a delegation of authority from President Biden, I am authorizing our 36th drawdown of U.S. arms and equipment for Ukraine valued at $325 million.\u00a0 This security assistance package includes more ammunition for U.S.-provided HIMARS and artillery rounds, as well as anti-armor systems, small arms, logistics support vehicles, and maintenance support essential to strengthening Ukraine\u2019s defenders on the battlefield.\u00a0 This new security assistance will enable Ukraine to continue to bravely defend itself in the face of Russia\u2019s brutal, unprovoked and unjustified war.<\/p>\n<p>Russia could end its war today.\u00a0 Until Russia does, the United States and our allies and partners will stand united with Ukraine for as long as it takes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04\/19\/2023 01:58 PM EDT &nbsp; Antony&#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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57451","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=57451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57452,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57451\/revisions\/57452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}