Biden administration readies about $1.1b in additional security aid for Ukraine: Sources
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Washington has sent billions of dollars in security assistance to the Kyiv government.
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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - President Joe Biden's administration is readying about US$800 million (S$1.1 billion) of additional military aid to Ukraine and could announce it as soon as Friday (Aug 19), three sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
Biden would authorise the assistance using his Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows the president to authorise the transfer of excess weapons from US stocks, the sources told Reuters.
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that an announcement could slip into next week, cautioning that weapons packages can change in value before they are announced.
The White House declined to comment.
Since Russian troops poured over the Ukrainian border in February in what Russian President Vladimir Putin termed a "special military operation", the conflict has settled into a war of attrition fought primarily in the east and south of Ukraine.
Washington has sent billions of dollars in security assistance to the Kyiv government.
