President Joe Biden is expected to announce by the end of this month, and likely as soon as Thursday, a large military assistance package that would be sent to Ukraine from US inventories over the coming months, according to a senior congressional aide and a senior administration official.
The Biden administration is poised to signal that it found a mechanism to provide about $5.6 billion in military equipment under the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which expires Sept. 30. Presidential Drawdown Authority allows the US military to dip into its own weapons stocks to send supplies to Ukraine. Congress has approved money ...