The Defense Department announced an additional $1 billion in security assistance to Ukraine, which will include Harpoon coastal defense systems, more 155-mm howitzers, and more ammunition for the High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS.
The latest tranche of security assistance bound for Ukraine was announced earlier today by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley, who are both participating in the third meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels.
Senior defense officials later discussed the announcement in more detail during a background briefing at the Pentagon.
“The United States will be providing Ukraine with another $1 billion of security assistance,” an official said. “This new assistance will support Ukraine’s most urgent needs for artillery, as well as near-term priorities for coastal defense, secure communications, and optics.”