125 Humvees, HIMARS Ammo Part of $275M U.S. Aid to Ukraine

The Department of Defense (DoD) announced the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $275 million to meet Ukraine’s security and defense needs that includes 125 Humvee vehicles and additional ammunition for HIMARS systems.

This authorization is the Biden Administration’s twenty-fourth drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.

Capabilities in this package include:

Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);

500 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds;

2,000 155mm rounds of Remote Anti-Armor Mine (RAAM) Systems;

More than 1,300 anti-armor systems;

125 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs);

Small arms and more than 2,750,000 rounds of small arms ammunition; and

Four satellite communications antennas.

In total, the U.S. has committed more than $18.5 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since January 2021, including approximately $17.9 billion since the beginning of Russia’s unprovoked and brutal invasion on February 24, 2022.

Two initial NASAMS that the U.S. has committed to providing will be ready for delivery to Ukraine early next month.