Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cIn late December, the Biden administration quietly authorized an additional $200 million in security assistance to Ukraine,\u201d the story\u2019s five reporters wrote. \u201cThe security package authorized the shipment of much of the same defensive equipment the US has provided in the past, including small arms and ammunition, secure radios, medical equipment, spare parts and other equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your friendly neighborhood newsletter team and our Politico colleagues worked over the last 24 hours to track down more information on this transfer, and here\u2019s what we now know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The $200 million was approved as part of President Joe Bsden\u2019s drawdown authority, which empowers him to have the secretary of State ask the secretary of Defense to deliver items from existing Pentagon stock to a country in peril. The president\u2019s team is then required to tell Congress \u201cthat an unforeseen emergency required immediate military assistance,\u201d per the Defense Security Cooperation Agency\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Multiple congressional staffers said they first heard of this drawdown authorization during a recent classified briefing. Furthermore, they said, none of the $200 million in weaponry has gone to Ukraine yet, as the drawdown process was just completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who talked to NatSec Daily, and a person familiar with the package who spoke with our own Paul McLeary, said the United States will send radar systems and some maritime equipment, though it\u2019s unclear when the first deliveries will be made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Zelensky adviser added that the Ukrainians were informed of the forthcoming aid last month \u201cat the senior level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGiven that U.S. intelligence consistently suggests that Russia may launch a full-blown invasion using all its military might, this aid would allow Ukraine to inflict additional damage on Russia but would not significantly alter the outcome,\u201d the adviser said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This isn\u2019t the first time Biden has used his drawdown authority: In August, he committed the United States to send $60 million in military aid to Kyiv shortly ahead of a meeting with Zelensky. Part of that tranche, including small arms and ammo, were delivered to Ukraine last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have been providing defensive assistance to Ukraine, including through deliveries that have taken place in just the last few weeks. We will continue to do so in the weeks and months ahead through a range of mechanisms, including the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative,\u201d a State Department spokesperson told us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our own Lee Hudson, speaking to someone familiar with the plan, said U.S. military services are wary of seeing their equipment shipped off to Eastern Europe. After all, replacing transferred materials takes time, thus leaving them with a temporary weapons gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other countries may also send some of their equipment to help Ukraine. In December, news broke that Estonia was weighing transferring Javelin anti-tank missiles and 122mm howitzers to Kyiv, but was waiting on approval from the U.S. to send the Javelins, as well as Germany and Finland, from which Estonia originally sourced the howitzers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a Sunday appearance on ABC News, Secretary of State ANTONY BLINKEN said: \u201cWe have been providing significant defensive assistance to Ukraine, including as recently as the last couple of weeks. Almost half a billion dollars this year alone. That\u2019s continued, that will continue, and if there is further aggression by Russia against Ukraine, we\u2019ll see even more of that. We are making sure, to the best of our ability \u2013 and other allies and partners are doing the same \u2013 that Ukraine has the means to defend itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read also: <\/strong>Russia\u2019s Military Escalation Against Ukraine (LIVE UPDATES)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CNN successfully raised NatSec Daily\u2019s collective eyebrow with this tidbit buried deep …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":479201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,49,52,54,55,50],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-479198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-news-en","category-svit-2-en","category-usa-en","category-ukraine-en","category-svit-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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