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In a last ditch effort ahead of the impending Trump administration, Biden’s White House plans to announce an additional $1.25 billion in military aid to Ukraine.
The large aid package includes a significant number of munitions, including for the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems and the HAWK Air Defense System. The package will also include Stinger missiles and 155mm and 105mm artillery shells.
Officials are expected to make the announcement Monday, the Associated Press reported.
President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands after signing a security agreement on the sidelines of the G7 on June 13 in Savelletri, Italy. (AP/Alex Brandon)
The recent funding comes after Biden announced a $988 million aid package earlier this month in Ukraine to ensure that it “has the tools it needs to prevail in its fight against Russian aggression.”
“This administration has made its choice. So has the bipartisan coalition in Congress. The next administration must make its own decision,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said earlier during a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. “But, from this library, from this podium, I am convinced of that President Reagan sided with Ukraine, American security and human freedom.”
French President Emmanuel Macron (C), US President-elect Donald Trump (L) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pose before a meeting at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on December 7, 2024. Trump is making his first international trip since winning the election, preparing for a day of intense diplomacy before going to the reopening ceremony of Notre Dame Cathedral rebuilt after the fire in 2019. (SARAH MEYSSONNIER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The Biden administration has pledged to give Ukraine as much aid as possible before Trump takes office in January.
During the campaign, President-elect Trump and Vice-President-elect JD Vance strongly criticized the Biden administration’s support for Ukraine after the 2022 Russian invasion.
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Trump also said he would end the war before even taking office, without offering further details. Vance suggested earlier this year that the best way to end the war was for Ukraine to cede land seized by Russia and establish a demilitarized zone, a proposal that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy flatly rejected.
Since the campaign trial, Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky while at the ceremony marking the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Saturday after the devastating fire that broke out there in 2019.
Ukrainian soldiers of the 24th Brigade are seen with small arms during an exercise in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on December 15. (Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
This latest announcement marks the administration’s 22nd aid package through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.
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Earlier in December, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson rejected the administration’s request that Congress approve $24 billion in additional funding.
“It’s not up to Joe Biden to make that decision now,” Johnson said earlier. “We have a newly elected president, and we will wait and take instructions from the new commander in all of this. So, I do not expect that there will be any funding for Ukraine now.”
