Shipments of the $800 million in new security assistance that the US is sending to Ukraine have started, but have not yet arrived in Ukraine, according to multiple officials, APA reports citing CNN.
US President Joe Biden announced the new aid package last week after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered an impassioned plea to Congress for more help.
“We’re still fleshing all of that out, but it will arrive, we believe it will arrive very, very soon, or at least the initial shipments will start to arrive soon, but nothing has been actualized on that yet,” a senior defense official told reporters Monday.
Another administration official told CNN the plan was for equipment to begin being shipped this weekend so deliveries should begin in the next few days.
“Shipments have certainly begun,” the official noted, just not the actual arrival of the aid.
These shipments will be critical to the Ukrainian defense against the Russian onslaught and will include 100 armed drones for the first time.
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