Joe Biden signs Ukraine aid bill into law

“I just signed into law the national security package that was passed by the House of Representatives this weekend and by the Senate yesterday. It will make America safer, it will make the world safer," he said.

In addition, the American president told the details of the first package that will be provided to Ukraine within the allocated aid of $61 billion. According to him, Ukraine will receive ammunition for air defense, artillery, missile systems and armored vehicles.

"In the next few hours, we will begin sending equipment to Ukraine," Biden said.

Meanwhile, a complete list of military aid that Ukraine will receive has appeared on the website of the US Department of Defense. The total value of the package is $1 billion. In particular, it includes:

• RIM-7 and AIM-9M missiles for air defense;
• Stinger anti-aircraft missiles;
• Small arms and additional rounds of small arms ammunition, including .50 caliber rounds to counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS);
• Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
• 155mm artillery rounds, including High Explosive and Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions rounds;
• 105mm artillery rounds;
• 60 mm mortar rounds;
• Bradley infantry fighting vehicles;
• Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAPs);
• High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs);
• Logistics support vehicles;
• Tactical vehicles for towing and hauling equipment;
• Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
• Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems;
• Precision aerial munitions;
• Airfield support equipment;
• Anti-armor mines;
• Claymore anti-personnel munitions;
• Demolitions munitions for obstacle clearing;
• night vision devices;
• Spare parts, field equipment, training munitions, maintenance, and other ancillary equipment.

Background

In April, after the Easter holidays in the USA, Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson presented four separate bills on US aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and national security priorities in a closed session. In the Senate, they were combined into one package.

The White House noted that "at first glance" Johnson's proposal regarding individual bills meets the requests of the US President's administration.

This proposal includes about $61 billion and ATACMS ballistic missiles for Ukraine. Of this amount, about $27.1 billion will go to the actual purchase of weapons, $23 billion to replenish the reserves of the US army, and another $9.4 billion to non-military aid.

Johnson proposed the bills after the House of Representatives blocked the Senate proposal.