The Department of Defense (DOD) plans to send millions of dollars’ worth of additional military aid to Ukraine under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), the agency announced on Nov. 4.
The assistance package is aimed at helping to build the Ukrainian forces’ capacity to defend its sovereignty in the long term and “underscores” Washington’s continued support to help meet Ukraine’s “most urgent needs,” a Nov. 4 press release by the DOD stated.