The Pentagon is set to unveil another $2 billion in military aid for Ukraine, hoping to bolster the country’s air defenses as Kiev launches its much-touted counteroffensive against Russian forces, Bloomberg News has reported.
The announcement is likely to come later this week, the outlet said on Thursday, citing unnamed US officials. The arms will be provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which has furnished billions of dollars in American weapons to Kiev since fighting erupted with Moscow last year.
The new aid package will include two types of Patriot missiles: the Patriot Advanced Capability Missile-3 (PAC-3) and the Guidance Enhanced Missile. Produced by Raytheon, the latter munitions are said to provide “improved ability to defeat tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles or enemy aircraft in complement to the PAC-3 missile,” according to the US weapons-maker.
Poster Comment:
Mike Rivero: The pattern that is starting to emerge is simple. Burisma paid then VP Joe Biden $5 million to use his influence to get the Ukrainian prosecutor looking into Burisma fired. Biden then threatened Ukraine that unless they fired that prosecutor he would withhold a billion dollars in aid. Ukraine then fired the prosecutor and Biden actually is on video bragging about what he did.
Fast forward to today and Zelensky is clearly in a position to blackmail Resident Biden into send billions of your dollars to Ukraine. So, as long as Biden is in office, the flow of money will never stop!