The Biden government is preparing to provide Ukraine with an additional security assistance of $ 800 million

Jimu Journalist Li Lili

According to Reuters reported on August 18, three people familiar with the matter said that Biden's government was preparing to provide Ukraine with an additional military assistance of about $ 800 million, which may be announced on Friday, local time.

Data Map: Biden Picture Source: Reuters

The source said Biden would authorize the military assistance to use the power of the president's withdrawal of troops. The withdrawal authorization allows the president to authorize the excess weapons from the US inventory.

Jimu Journalists found that this was not the first time that Biden had used the president to withdraw its troops.

As early as April this year, the media was exposed. When the U.S. military evacuated Afghanistan in 2021, it abandoned military equipment with a total value of about 7 billion US dollars (about RMB 46.1 billion). Then Biden transferred some military equipment to Ukraine by exercising the withdrawal of the forces, including the United States who had purchased it for Afghanistan but had not been transferred to Afghanistan.

Another sources who do not want to disclose their names said they may also issue announcements next week and remind them that the value of these weapons may change before it is announced.

Reuters said the White House refused to comment.

Since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in February this year, Washington has provided billions of US dollars of security assistance to the Kyiv government.

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