Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced a new Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs as part of the surge of security assistance the President directed to put Ukraine in the best possible position. This announcement is the Biden Administration’s seventy-second tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021. This PDA package, which has an estimated value of $500 million, will provide Ukraine additional capabilities to meet its most urgent needs, including: air defense capabilities; munitions for rocket systems and artillery; and anti-tank weapons.
The capabilities in this announcement include:
- Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (c-UAS) munitions;
- Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
- 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition;
- High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs);
- Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS);
- Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAPs);
- High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs);
- Light tactical vehicles;
- Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) protective equipment;
- Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems;
- Tube-launched, Optically guided, Wire-tracked (TOW) missiles;
- Small arms ammunition;
- Demolitions equipment and munitions; and
- Spare parts, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation.
The United States will continue to work together with some 50 Allies and partners through the Ukraine Defense Contact Group and its associated Capability Coalitions to meet Ukraine’s urgently needed battlefield requirements and defend against Russian aggression.
An updated Ukraine Fact Sheet can be found here.
