The United States provides Ukraine with additional security assistance worth $ 1 billion

Xinhua News Agency, Washington, August 8th (Reporter Deng Xianlai) The U.S. Department of Defense announced on the 8th that the United States will provide Ukraine with additional security assistance worth $ 1 billion.This is the largest single security assistance provided by the United States to Ukraine to date.

According to a statement issued by the Ministry of National Defense on the same day, this round of security assistance includes the "high -mobility multi -tube rocket system" and "national advanced ground -to -air missile system" adapted to the U.S. side with the United States, respectivelyMillimeter -caliber shells, 20 120 mm caliber mortar and 20,000 -faced cannonball, 1,000 "javelin" anti -tank missile system, hundreds of AT4 anti -tank rockets, and 50 armored medical ambulances.

The statement said that this is the 18th time that the US President Biden has used the administrative power of the Presidential President to directly retrieve the aid weapon from the Ministry of Defense in inventory of the Ministry of Defense since August last year, and it is also the largest aid.Since Biden's administration, the United States has promised to provide Ukraine with a total security aid of about 9.8 billion US dollars.

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