The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday that it has approved $ 322 million in proposed arms sales to Ukraine to improve its air defense options and to offer armored combat vehicles, coming when the country works away to dispose of Escalating Russian attacks.
The potential turnover, which, according to the Department, was informed of the congress, includes $ 150 million for the supply, maintenance, repair and overhaul of American armored vehicles and $ 172 million for surface-air rakety systems.
The approvals come weeks after Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth has aimed a break on other weapons to Ukraine to enable the Pentagon to assess its stocks of weapons, in a movement that surprises the White House. President Donald Trump then made one Abrupt change in attitudeEarlier this month, promises to continue to send weapons to Ukraine.
“We have to,” said Trump. “They must be able to defend themselves. They are now being hit very hard. We are going to send a little more weapons – defending weapons mainly.”
Ukrainian 3rd Assault Brigade Recurrent Train in the Polygon in Kyiv Region, Ukraine, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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Ukrainian 3rd Assault Brigade Recurrent Train in the Polygon in Kyiv Region, Ukraine, on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Trump recently approved a plan to have European allies buy American military equipment that can then be Transferred to Ukraine. It was not immediately clear how the newest proposed sale with regard to that regulation.
Since Russia launched its full invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the US has had more than $ 67 billion in weapons and security assistance to Kiev.
Since Trump returned, his administration has gone back and forth about offering more military aid to Ukraine, with political pressure to stop financing foreign wars of the isolationists in the Trump government and on Capitol Hill.
In the course of the war, the US has routinely insisted on allies to offer anti -aircraft systems to Ukraine. But many are reluctant to give up the high-tech systems, in particular countries in Eastern Europe that also feel threatened by Russia.
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