The United States will send an additional $2 billion in aid to Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday during a press conference in Kyiv with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
Blinken stated that the foreign military finance will be used not just to purchase weapons from the United States but also by Ukraine to invest in the manufacture of its own machinery and weaponry. Ukraine will also use some of the funds to buy weaponry from other countries, he stated.
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“All of this, in particular as we think about the defense industrial base, builds on an incredible spirit of innovation, of ingenuity, of entrepreneurship that we see here in Ukraine,” Blinken stated.
The latest supply agreement comes as Russian soldiers ramp up their attacks along the battle lines in northern and eastern Ukraine.
Blinken said on Wednesday that the United States is “rushing” much of the $60 billion military aid package approved by President Joe Biden in April.
“The $60 billion supplemental, we know, is coming at a critical time,” he stated. “Ukraine is facing this renewed, brutal Russian onslaught, and we see again senseless strikes on civilians and residential buildings.”
