It will only last for six months. Pentagon has $5.2 billion left for military aid to Ukraine
The Pentagon has another $5.2 billion left in the state budget to provide military assistance to Ukraine, which, at the current rate, will be enough for about six months.
The Wall Street Journal writes about this, citing unnamed officials of the US Department of Defense.
According to journalists, $5.2 billion in security assistance for Ukraine is “about six months of weapons if the United States continues to send supplies to Ukraine at the same pace as it has since early March.”
“This is about 12% of the total $43.9 billion in security assistance that the United States has provided since Russia’s invasion in February 2022,” the publication says.
The United States also used the funds of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) program to support Ukraine, but at the moment, according to journalists, the USAI treasury is empty.
The WSJ writes that the $5.2 billion left over from the Pentagon came after officials discovered an accounting error in May “that essentially gave the Defense Department more money for Ukraine than it had anticipated.” The mistake arose from a discrepancy in the Pentagon’s assessment of the weapons being supplied. The Pentagon also has about $1.6 billion, which it uses to replenish its own weapons stockpile.
- On September 30, 2023, both houses of the US Congress – the House of Representatives and the Senate – supported a budget resolution to fund federal spending for the next 45 days. The text of the resolution does not provide for new funding for Ukraine until November 17 inclusive.
- The White House asked Congress to allocate $24 billion for Ukraine by the end of 2023.
- The last time Congress approved $48 billion in aid to Ukraine was in December 2022, before Republicans took control of the House of Representatives.
