Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced additional security assistance to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs. This announcement is the Biden Administration’s fifty-seventh tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021. This Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package has an estimated value of $400 million and includes capabilities to support Ukraine’s most urgent battlefield requirements, including air defense, artillery rounds, armored vehicles, and anti-tank weapons.

The capabilities in this announcement include:

Additional munitions for Patriot air defense systems;

Additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);

Stinger anti-aircraft missiles;

Equipment to integrate Western launchers, missiles, and radars with Ukraine’s systems;

Additional High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems(HIMARS) and ammunition;

155mm and 105mm artillery rounds;

Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles;M113 Armored Personnel Carriers;

Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles;

Trailers to transport heavy equipment;

Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;

Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems;