The US will provide Ukraine with a $1.2B military aid package; Trump plans to continue arms deliveries.

The Biden administration will announce its final Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) package in the coming days, using the remaining funds that have been reserved to purchase new weapons for Kyiv. The package, worth about $1.2B, will likely include interceptors for air defense and artillery ammunition. Under the USAI program, military equipment is purchased from industry or partners, not from American stocks.

Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said that Washington aims to use as much as possible of the allocated $6.7B by the end of Biden’s term and quickly deliver weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Although, as FT sources reported, US President-elect Donald Trump plans to maintain supplies of American weapons to Ukraine after his inauguration. Trump still believes that Ukraine should never become a member of NATO and wants an immediate end to the conflict, but he believes that supplying weapons to Kyiv after a ceasefire will ensure “peace through strength.”