{"id":1381797,"date":"2026-06-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1381797"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:44:00","slug":"rubio-signals-update-on-400-million-military-aid-package-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/rubio-signals-update-on-400-million-military-aid-package-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Signals Update on $400 Million Military Aid Package for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":" <p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has indicated that there could soon be developments regarding a $400 million military assistance package for Ukraine that has already been approved by Congress.<\/p>\n   <p>The secretary&#8217;s comments were reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/33772022.html\">RFE\/RL<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/\">UATV English<\/a>.<\/p>\n   <p>In late April, Senator Mitch McConnell published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2026\/04\/28\/mitch-mcconnell-congress-funded-ukraine-pentagon-is-stalling\/\">article<\/a> in <em>The Washington Post<\/em> accusing officials at the US Department of Defense of delaying the delivery of congressionally approved aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n   <p>Following the criticism, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that the funds had already been allocated and transferred.<\/p>\n   <p>Rubio said that the package is currently undergoing an interagency review and coordination process.<\/p>\n   <p><em>&#8220;I expect news on that very soon,&#8221;<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n   <p>The assistance package in question amounts to $400 million for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), a program under which the Pentagon purchases military equipment from US defense contractors for Ukraine. The funding was included in the National Defense Authorization Act approved by the US Congress in December 2025.<\/p>\n   <p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also said that President Donald Trump will take part in the upcoming NATO summit scheduled to be held in Turkey in July.<\/p>\n    <blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The United States remains a member of the NATO alliance, and we will be in Turkey to discuss all of these issues. The president will personally participate in the next meeting of NATO heads of state, where all of these matters will be clarified,&#8221; Rubio said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n   <p><strong>Read also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/us-congress-advances-9-billion-ukraine-aid-package\/\">US Congress Advances $9 Billion Ukraine Aid Package<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has indicated that there could soon &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1252328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,49,36415,54,55,50,36537],"tags":[76,78,72926],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1381797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ukraine","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en","category-usa-en","category-ukraine-en","category-svit-en","category-11473-ukraine-en-news-en-4","tag-glavnoe-en","tag-homepage-en","tag-ukraine-s-allies-aid"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rubio Signals Update on $400 Million Military Aid Package for Ukraine - Freedom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/rubio-signals-update-on-400-million-military-aid-package-for-ukraine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rubio Signals Update on $400 Million Military Aid Package for Ukraine - Freedom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has indicated that there could soon ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/rubio-signals-update-on-400-million-military-aid-package-for-ukraine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Freedom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-06-04T07:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/51-820x473.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"820\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"473\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Danylo Shportilo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Danylo Shportilo\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/rubio-signals-update-on-400-million-military-aid-package-for-ukraine\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/rubio-signals-update-on-400-million-military-aid-package-for-ukraine\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Danylo Shportilo\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/f4fe8d6d08deebcdee69f6671576d2d2\"},\"headline\":\"Rubio Signals Update on $400 Million Military Aid Package for Ukraine\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-04T07:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/rubio-signals-update-on-400-million-military-aid-package-for-ukraine\/\"},\"wordCount\":252,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/rubio-signals-update-on-400-million-military-aid-package-for-ukraine\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/51.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"\u0413\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0435\",\"\u041d\u0430 \u0433\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u0443\u044e (\u0441\u043b\u0430\u0439\u0434\u0435\u0440)\",\"Ukraine\u2019s Allies &amp; 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