WASHINGTON: The United States will send a new military aid package for Ukraine worth $300 million, President Joe Biden’s administration said on Tuesday, the first such move in months as additional funds for Kyiv remain blocked by Republican leaders in Congress.
The White House has been scrambling to find ways to send more military assistance given the situation on the battlefield and the resistance to the funding from Republican hard-liners.
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the funding was coming from unanticipated cost savings from Pentagon contracts and would be used for artillery rounds and munitions for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS).
“This ammunition will keep Ukraine’s guns firing for a period, but only a short period,” Sullivan told reporters, adding it may only be helpful to Ukraine for a couple of weeks.
“It is nowhere near enough to meet Ukraine’s battlefield needs and it will not prevent Ukraine from running out of ammunition,” Sullivan said.
The new weapons package was first reported by Reuters earlier on Tuesday.
Pentagon Press Secretary Major General Pat Ryder said the package included anti-aircraft missiles and artillery rounds. He said providing weapons to Ukraine through Pentagon contract savings was likely a one-time situation and not a sustainable way of funding Kyiv.
The last drawdown was in December 2023 when funds to replenish stocks fell to zero.
US officials have also looked at options for seizing some $285 billion in Russian assets immobilized in 2022 and using the money to pay for Ukraine weaponry.
The announcement came as Poland’s president and prime minister meet President Joe Biden at the White House later on Tuesday to talk about ways to bolster support for Ukraine.
“Financial support for Ukraine is cheap considering what the other support could be,” Polish President Andrzej Duda told reporters.
Using the funds that have been returned to replenish stocks opens a narrow window to allow more aid to be sent from existing stocks as the Biden administration waits for supplemental funding to be passed by lawmakers.
Biden, a Democrat, has backed military aid to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, while his likely Republican opponent in the Nov. 5 US election, former President Donald Trump, has a more isolationist stance.
Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson, an ally of Trump, has so far refused to call a vote on a bill that would provide $60 billion more for Ukraine.
The measure has passed the Democratic-run Senate, and both Republicans and Democrats in the House say it would pass if the chamber’s Republican leaders allowed a vote.
Leaders of US intelligence agencies pressed members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday to approve additional military assistance for Ukraine, saying it would not only boost Kyiv as it fights Russia but discourage Chinese aggression.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that the situation along the front of the country’s war with Russia was the best in three months, with Moscow’s troops no longer advancing after their capture last month of the eastern city of Avdiivka.
Zelensky, in an interview with France’s BFM television, said Ukraine had improved its strategic position despite shortages of weaponry, but suggested the situation could change again if new supplies were not forthcoming.
He said earlier that Russia is preparing a new offensive against Ukraine starting in late May or summer. Zelensky has said 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since February 2022.
Russia’s capture of Avdiivka gave the Kremlin’s forces breathing room in defending the Russian-held regional center of Donetsk, 20 km (12 miles) to the east.
Earlier this month, a top military commander said Ukrainian troops were forced to leave several settlements neighboring Avdiivka due to Russia’s continued offensive amid its own depleting stockpiles of munitions.
Denmark will provide a new military aid package including Caesar artillery systems and ammunition to Ukraine worth around 2.3 billion Danish crowns ($336.6 million), the Danish Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
European Union countries are set to agree on a new 5 billion-euro ($5.46 billion) top-up to a fund used to finance military shipments to Ukraine, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing four officials briefed on the discussions.
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US to send new weapons package worth $300 million for Ukraine
- US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the funding was coming from unanticipated cost savings from Pentagon contracts
- “This ammunition will keep Ukraine’s guns firing for a period, but only a short period”
Beijing vows ‘measures’ after CIA Chinese-language recruitment ad
- Chinese-language video appears to target disaffected officers and appeals for information on China’s leaders and armed forces
- China’s foreign ministry condemns what it called ‘anti-China forces’ and vows action to protect national security
BEIJING: Beijing will take “all necessary measures” against foreign espionage activities, the foreign ministry said Friday, after the US spy agency issued a recruitment video targeting Chinese military personnel.
The CIA’s Chinese-language video, published on the agency’s YouTube channel on Thursday, appears to target disaffected officers and appeals for information on China’s leaders and armed forces.
China’s foreign ministry condemned what it called “anti-China forces” and vowed action to protect national security.
“China will take all necessary measures to resolutely combat infiltration and sabotage activities of foreign anti-China forces and resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests,” foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a press conference when asked about the CIA video.
He did not provide any details on the measures Beijing could take.
The video depicts a fictional Chinese officer deciding to contact the US intelligence agency after concluding that “the only thing leaders are protecting is their own interest” and that “their power is based on countless lies.”
It shows the officer at home with his family, then driving past a checkpoint in pouring rain before taking out a laptop in the car and typing on it as he says: “Picking this path is my way of fighting for my family and my country.”
Chinese text accompanying the clip appeals for leaks on Beijing’s leaders and military as well as other areas.
“Do you have information about high-ranking Chinese leaders? Are you a military officer or have dealings with the military? Do you work in intelligence, diplomacy, economics, science, or advanced technology fields, or deal with people working in these fields?”
“Please contact us. We want to understand the truth,” the text says, adding that the CIA can be contacted “securely through our Tor hidden service.”
The latest appeal came after the agency released a number of videos last year that its Director John Ratcliffe said were aimed at recruiting Chinese officials.
They are “just one of many ways that we’re adjusting our tradecraft,” Ratcliffe said.
Beijing condemned the posts at the time as “naked political provocation,” saying Washington “not only maliciously smears and attacks China, but also openly deceives and lures Chinese personnel to surrender.”
The CIA’s Chinese-language video, published on the agency’s YouTube channel on Thursday, appears to target disaffected officers and appeals for information on China’s leaders and armed forces.
China’s foreign ministry condemned what it called “anti-China forces” and vowed action to protect national security.
“China will take all necessary measures to resolutely combat infiltration and sabotage activities of foreign anti-China forces and resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests,” foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a press conference when asked about the CIA video.
He did not provide any details on the measures Beijing could take.
The video depicts a fictional Chinese officer deciding to contact the US intelligence agency after concluding that “the only thing leaders are protecting is their own interest” and that “their power is based on countless lies.”
It shows the officer at home with his family, then driving past a checkpoint in pouring rain before taking out a laptop in the car and typing on it as he says: “Picking this path is my way of fighting for my family and my country.”
Chinese text accompanying the clip appeals for leaks on Beijing’s leaders and military as well as other areas.
“Do you have information about high-ranking Chinese leaders? Are you a military officer or have dealings with the military? Do you work in intelligence, diplomacy, economics, science, or advanced technology fields, or deal with people working in these fields?”
“Please contact us. We want to understand the truth,” the text says, adding that the CIA can be contacted “securely through our Tor hidden service.”
The latest appeal came after the agency released a number of videos last year that its Director John Ratcliffe said were aimed at recruiting Chinese officials.
They are “just one of many ways that we’re adjusting our tradecraft,” Ratcliffe said.
Beijing condemned the posts at the time as “naked political provocation,” saying Washington “not only maliciously smears and attacks China, but also openly deceives and lures Chinese personnel to surrender.”
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