America will send a new arms package worth $300 million to Ukraine

Washington (Uttam Hindu News): The US will send $300 million (234 million pounds) of military weapons to Ukraine, including ammunition, rockets and anti-aircraft missiles. This has been said in media reports quoting the White House. According to BBC report, a bill in this regard was presented and discussed in the US Congress on Tuesday. America will send a shipment to help Ukraine after about three months. National security adviser Jake Sullivan said the aid “does not go far enough to meet Ukraine’s battlefield needs.”

“This ammunition will not stop Ukrainian guns for some time, but for a fairly short period of time,” he told reporters on Tuesday. The White House has been urging Congress for several months to pass a budget that includes aid for Ukraine as well as Israel and Taiwan, the BBC reports. The $60 billion aid bill has already passed the Senate, but has not yet been put up for a vote in the House of Representatives.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has so far refused to consider the Senate bill. Johnson, an ally of Donald Trump, has said the House will vote on its own aid bill, but only after Congress passes a budget reforming the US immigration system. Tuesday’s emergency package of arms and equipment is funded by cost savings made in Ukraine’s earlier arms contracts.

The aid announcement came as President Joe Biden hosted Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the White House in a show of support for Ukraine. After the meeting, Tusk told reporters he hoped Johnson “already knows that, on his personal decision, the fate of millions of people depends”. “This is not a political clash that matters only in America,” the Polish prime minister said.

“The absence of this positive decision by Johnson would literally cost thousands of lives (in Ukraine). Children. Women. They should be aware of their personal responsibility.” On Tuesday, Denmark announced it would send ammunition worth about $336 million to Ukraine, the BBC reported. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last month that the country had lost its grip on the war in recent months due to an “artificial shortage” of weapons.