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US to send $3.75B in military aid to Ukraine, its neighbors

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will send $3.75 billion in military weapons and different aid to Ukraine and its neighbors on NATO’s japanese flank, the White House introduced Friday, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds on.

The newest tranche of help will embrace for the primary time Bradley armored automobiles for Ukraine. The armored provider is used to transport troops to fight and is named a “tank-killer” due to the anti-tank missile it might fireplace.

The greatest U.S. help package deal to date for Kyiv features a $2.85 billion drawdown from the Pentagon’s shares that can be despatched straight to Ukraine and $225 million in international military financing to construct the long-term capability and assist modernization of Ukraine’s military, in accordance to the White House. It additionally contains $682 million in international military financing for European allies to assist backfill donations of military tools they’ve made to Ukraine.

“The war is at a critical point and we must do everything we can to help the Ukrainians resist Russian aggression,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated in asserting the aid.

The direct help for Ukraine contains 50 Bradleys in addition to 500 anti-tank missiles and 250,000 rounds of ammunition for the carriers. The U.S. can also be sending 100 M113 armored personnel carriers, 55 mine-resistant ambush protected automobiles, or MRAPS, and 138 Humvees, in addition to ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and air protection techniques and different weapons and 1000’s of rounds of artillery, in accordance to the Pentagon.

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby stated the Bradleys can be significantly helpful to Ukraine in ongoing heavy preventing in largely rural areas of japanese Ukraine.

“It’s very much tied to the war that we’re seeing on the ground right now and what we anticipate we’ll see throughout the winter months,” Kirby stated.

Critics have complained that the U.S. has been too gradual to present key weapons such because the Bradleys and battle tanks just like the Abrams, saying they might have helped in the battle final 12 months.

At the Pentagon, Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary for Russia and Ukraine, stated that is the precise time to present the Bradley. “The Ukrainians have demonstrated a lot of growing proficiency in maintenance and sustainment,” she stated.

She added that the U.S.-led coaching set to start later this month will allow troops to function, keep and restore the weapons and that offering tanks, such because the Pentagon’s extra complicated, gasoline guzzling, closely armored M1 Abrams tank, would require extra upkeep and different coaching.

The new U.S. package deal was detailed by the White House and Pentagon as Germany introduced it will provide round 40 Marder armored personnel carriers to Ukraine in this 12 months’s first quarter.

Germany introduced its intention to send the Marder APCs following a telephone name between Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Joe Biden on Thursday.

“These 40 vehicles should be ready in the first quarter already so that they can be handed over to Ukraine,” Scholz’s spokesman, Steffen Hebestreit, instructed reporters in Berlin. Germany plans to practice Ukrainian forces to use the automobiles, and Hebestreit stated consultants anticipate that course of to take round eight weeks.

Germany has already given vital military aid, together with howitzers, Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft weapons and an IRIS-T surface-to-air missile system, with three extra of these set to comply with this 12 months.

Scholz has lengthy been cautious of strain to provide the Marder and different, heavier Western-made automobiles equivalent to tanks, insisting that Germany wouldn’t go it alone with such deliveries. Officials famous that different international locations hadn’t equipped any. But this week, France, the U.S. and Germany all introduced plans to send comparable armored automobiles that fall wanting tanks.

Germany final 12 months championed offers in which japanese NATO allies despatched acquainted Soviet-era tools to Ukraine, with Germany in flip supplying these international locations with extra trendy Western-made tools.

Hebestreit stated there had been talks with the U.S. and others since mid-December on how to assist Ukraine going ahead. He stated the potential for supplying Soviet-produced tools is “slowly coming to an end,” whereas the state of affairs in Ukraine is altering with huge Russian strikes on infrastructure and preventing that might enhance when the climate warms up.

Ukraine and various German lawmakers inside and outdoors Scholz’s governing coalition even have known as for Germany to ship Leopard 2 battle tanks. Advocates of delivering the Leopard have been cheered by the transfer on Marder APCs and vowed to maintain urgent the purpose.

But Hebestreit stated that battle tanks weren’t a difficulty in Thursday’s name between Scholz and Biden. He stated Germany will stick to its rules of supporting Ukraine as strongly as potential, whereas not going it alone on weapons provides and making certain that NATO doesn’t change into a celebration to Russia’s battle in Ukraine.

Germany additionally stated Thursday that it’ll comply with the U.S. in supplying a Patriot air protection missile battery to Ukraine. That was on the request of the U.S. and in addition is anticipated in the primary quarter, Hebestreit stated.

It comes on prime of Patriot techniques that Germany has despatched or plans to send to Slovakia and Poland.

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Associated Press reporters Seung Min Kim and Aamer Madhani contributed reporting.

Follow AP’s protection of the battle in Ukraine: https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

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