{"id":59015,"date":"2023-07-25T12:13:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=59015"},"modified":"2023-07-25T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:13:50","slug":"additional-u-s-military-assistance-for-ukraine-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=59015","title":{"rendered":"Additional U.S. Military Assistance for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>07\/25\/2023 01:24 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>The people of Ukraine continue to bravely defend their country\u00a0against Russia\u2019s aggression while Russia continues its\u00a0relentless and vicious attacks that are\u00a0killing\u00a0Ukrainian\u00a0<wbr \/>civilians and\u00a0destroying\u00a0civil infrastructure.\u00a0 Ukraine\u2019s steadfast courage continues to inspire the world.<\/p>\n<p>Pursuant to a delegation of authority from President Biden, I am authorizing our 43rd drawdown for Ukraine.\u00a0 This assistance package includes air defense munitions, artillery rounds, armored vehicles, and anti-armor capabilities, as well as other equipment essential to strengthening Ukraine\u2019s brave forces on the battlefield, helping them retake Ukraine\u2019s sovereign territory, and defend their fellow citizens.\u00a0 This package contains critical military assistance totaling $400 million worth of arms and equipment from Department of Defense stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Russia started this unprovoked war against Ukraine.\u00a0 Following its withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Russia continues to attack Ukrainian ports and grain infrastructure \u2013 including in Odessa. \u00a0Russia could end this war at any time by withdrawing its forces from Ukraine and stopping its brutal attacks against Ukraine\u2019s cities and people. \u00a0\u00a0Until it 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>07\/25\/2023 01:24 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":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59015","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\/59015","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=59015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59016,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59015\/revisions\/59016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}