On Wednesday, White House Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said that the United States was not preparing another military aid package for Ukraine because funding for previous packages had run out.
Kirby said during a press briefing on Wednesday:
There isn’t another one in the works right now or being scheduled for announcement or delivery. We meant it when we said it at the time that that was the last one for which we had replenishment authority. And there’s not another one in the works right now.
Since 24 February 2022, the US has sent about $44bn in military aid to Ukraine. On 27 December 2023, the US presidential administration announced the last military aid package for $250m approved by Congress. Now there is a dispute between Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress about further support for Ukraine.
On 16 January 2024, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos that the US leadership would continue to help Kyiv. The US is confident that the governments of European countries will make a similar decision, he said.
