US Sending Ukraine Two Surface-to-Air Missile Systems: Pentagon

US Sending Ukraine Two Surface-to-Air Missile Systems: Pentagon
Workers get ready to dig in front of a destroyed building in the city of Mariupol on July 1, 2022. Stringer/AFP via Getty Images
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WASHINGTON—The United States is sending Ukraine two NASAMS surface-to-air missile systems, four additional counter-artillery radars and up to 150,000 rounds of 155mm artillery ammunition as part of its latest weapons packages for Ukraine, the Pentagon said on Friday.

The assistance package, worth about $820 million, was broadly announced by President Joe Biden on Thursday in Madrid following a gathering of NATO leaders that was focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.