President Joe Biden's administration is ready to give US $800 million of additional military aid to Ukraine and could announce it as soon as Friday Aug 19 according to sources familiar with the matter.
Biden would authorize the assistance using his Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows the president to authorise the transfer of excess weapons from US stocks, the sources told Reuters.
According to the sources, the announcement could slip into next week, and cautioned that weapons packages can change in value before they are announced.
Since Russian troops have poured over the Ukrainian border in February in what Russian President Vladimir Putin called a special military operation, the conflict has settled into a war of attrition fought mainly in the east and south of Ukraine.
Washington has sent billions of dollars in security assistance to the Kyiv government.