{"id":1535870,"date":"2022-07-02T03:19:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T07:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1535870"},"modified":"2022-07-02T03:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T07:19:38","slug":"biden-admin-to-give-820-million-more-in-military-aid-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-to-give-820-million-more-in-military-aid-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin to Give $820 Million More in Military Aid to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-to-give-820-million-more-in-military-aid-to-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1535870&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Biden administration announced new security assistance to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a> on July 1 in a package worth about $820 million in total.<\/p>\n<p>The assistance comprises an authorization of a Presidential Drawdown (PDA) of security assistance valued at up to $50 million, as well as $770 million in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) funds.\u00a0The PDA is the 14th drawdown of arms and equipment from the Pentagon\u2019s inventories since August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, the United States has committed a total of about $6.92 billion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-military-aid\">military aid<\/a> to Ukraine to fight Russian forces. Prior to the invasion, since 2014, the United States had committed some $1.8 billion in weapons and military training to Ukraine, $700 million of which came from the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>The latest $820 million aid package was broadly announced by President Joe Biden at a news conference on Thursday in Madrid, which was the third and final day of the NATO summit focused on the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to support Ukraine as long as it takes,\u201d Biden said, adding that the United States is giving Ukrainians \u201cthe capacity\u201d so that \u201cthey can continue to resist the Russian aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Two Surface-to-Air Missile Systems <\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon issued a more comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/3081993\/820-million-in-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine\/\">announcement<\/a> on Friday as it formalized the announcement. It said that\u00a0the USAI funds in the latest aid package will provide for Ukraine two National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS),\u00a0a Norwegian-developed anti-aircraft system that is used to protect the airspace around the White House and Capitol in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed his gratitude\u00a0in his nightly video address, saying on Friday: \u201cI am especially grateful today to the United States and to Biden personally for the package of support for Ukraine announced today, which includes very powerful NASAMS\u2014an anti-aircraft missile system that will significantly strengthen our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration announced new security assistance to Ukraine on July 1 in a package worth about $820 million in total. The assistance comprises an authorization of a Presidential Drawdown (PDA) of security assistance valued at up to $50 million, as well as $770 million in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) funds.\u00a0The PDA is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":1894761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-admin-to-give-820-million-more-in-military-aid-to-ukraine_4572893.html","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}