The White House announced a new $300M military aid package with ATACMS for Ukraine.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan announced the US plans to send a significant number of additional ATACMS to Ukraine as part of the new $300M military aid package.

Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder said the US will send Kyiv additional Anti-Personnel/Anti-Material missiles (APAM), Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, HIMARS ammunition, and more. The APAM missiles are an older version of the long-range ATACMS and travel 100 miles while carrying warheads containing hundreds of cluster bomblets.

A senior US defense official explained that the Defense Department now has money available for Ukraine, saying: “We had savings come in that will allow us to offset the cost of a new drawdown package.”

According to a Defense Department official, the Biden administration has debated sending additional ATACMS for weeks as Ukraine struggles to prevent Russia from making battlefield gains.