The new US military aid package, if successfully adopted, will provide payments for supplies to Ukraine for the next 5 months
The United States wants to provide Ukraine with weapons that do not require long training
US Secretary of Defense spokesman John Kirby said that the support package for military assistance, which the White House sent to Congress, will provide payments for military supplies to Ukraine for 5 months, according to Voice of America.
But first of all, a new $33 billion package of US aid to Ukraine should be accepted by the Congress. Kirby said that at a briefing.
“As President Biden said, if approved quickly by Congress, this aid package could be implemented within the next five months,” White House Chief of Staff John Kirby said. “Once Congress approves it, we may fit it perfectly into the current fiscal year (ending on September 30).”
“Experts from the Pentagon,” Kirby added, “are already finding out which [types of weapons] Ukrainian side needs in the first place.”
“What we're trying to do,” said a spokesman for the Defense Ministry, “is to provide them with systems that they can put into service in a week, that means, they will not necessarily be the latest systems, but rather those that are close to such systems, which they (Ukrainians) are already familiar with and which will not require a significant period of training. That's what we're focusing on right now,” Kirby said.
“We do not want to disturb them with long, difficult training, which requires the participation of a significant number of personnel, as they are in a state of active hostilities and suffer daily losses on the battlefield,” he added.
The Pentagon spokesman stressed on the arbitrariness and atrocities perpetrated by russian soldiers throughout Ukraine.
“It is very difficult to look at what putin is doing with Ukraine, what his troops are doing, and at the same time to think that any morally mature person could justify it,” said John Kirby. “It's hard to accept this, let's call a spade a spade. It's putin's delusion that there is any Nazism in Ukraine and that it is necessary to protect the russians in Ukraine, while Ukraine did not threaten anyone at all.”
It is not yet clear which weapons will be delivered, but the authoritative publication Forbes cites the example that the US Army has a surplus of 155-millimeter self-propelled artillery M-109 “Paladin”: they may be supplied to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which have already begun to move from the former Soviet standards to those adopted in NATO countries.
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