WASHINGTON – Lordy, lordy, look what’s 40.
President Biden approved his 40th military aid package for Ukraine on Tuesday, bringing the total sent to the war-torn country to more than $40 billion since Russia invaded the nation on Feb. 24, 2022, according to the White House.
The latest package, worth $325 million, comes as Ukraine’s long-predicted spring counter-offensive has kicked off.
Kyiv’s forces have spent the spring readying to take back Russian-occupied land in eastern Ukraine.
“[The package] includes key capabilities to aid Ukraine’s efforts to retake its sovereign territory and support Ukraine’s air defenders as they bravely protect Ukraine’s soldiers, civilians, and critical infrastructure,” the White House said in a statement.
Specifically, the US is sending NASAMS air defense munitions, Stinger anti-aircraft systems; HIMARS precision-guided rockets; 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds; 15 Bradley fighting vehicles; 10 Stryker armored personnel carriers; Javelins; TOW missiles; AT-4 anti-armor systems; and more than “22 million rounds of small arms ammunition and grenades” in the latest package.
![A view of the M142 HIMARS rocket (high mobility artillery rocket system) as Dynamic Front military exercise led by the United States takes place in a training area.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/NYPICHPDPICT000012640841.jpg?w=1024)
![Javelin anti-tank missiles.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/NYPICHPDPICT000012642079.jpg?w=1024)
Those items, which also include demolition munitions for clearing obstacles, communications equipment and various spare parts and “other field equipment,” will come from US stocks, which allows Washington to send the equipment to Ukraine faster than procuring and purchasing them new through congressionally approved Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative funds.
“The United States will continue to work with its Allies and partners to provide Ukraine with capabilities to meet its immediate battlefield needs and longer-term security assistance requirements,” the White House said in its statement.