WSJ: The Biden administration doesn’t have time to send all planned aid to Ukraine

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By the end of their term in January 2025, Joe Biden’s administration will not have time to send military aid to Ukraine for all the funds approved by Congress, and part of the corresponding powers will move to Donald Trump’s team.

Source: this became known The Wall Street Journal from interlocutors in the White House and Congress, writes “European Truth”

Details: The Biden administration now has more than $6.5 billion to move equipment to Ukraine from US Army warehouses and stockpiles, which I was hoping to use it completely until the end of his term on January 20.

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However, according to the WSJ, the Pentagon says it has reached the limit of weapons it can send to Ukraine each month without affecting its own combat capability, and that there are problems supply also in delivering weapons to Ukrainian forces.

According to estimates, in order to have time to spend all the money, the United States must send weapons worth more than $ 110 million to Ukraine every day – that is, almost $ 3 billion in December-January . A WSJ transportation source says “this is impossible.”

The newspaper’s source in the Pentagon says that the United States now plans to transfer Ukraine from its military stock in the amount of $500 to $750 million per month. These shipments mostly contain ammunition and artillery, which are easier to transport – heavier equipment could take months to arrive.

Unused funds will therefore be the responsibility of the future administration of Donald Trump. It is not yet known what he will do with the supply of arms to Ukraine.

In addition to funding for supplies from US military bases, the Biden administration also has more than $2 billion in funding for long-term military contracts for Kyiv. A WSJ source at the Pentagon says they are trying to contract “as much of this money as possible” by January 20th.

In addition, the White House still has a little less than $ 5 billion allocated by Congress to buy new weapons to replenish American stocks. According to the WSJ, the Biden administration hopes to fully contract those funds by the end of the term.

It was earlier reported that US President Joe Biden asked Congress to allocate Another $24 billion in military aid to Ukraine and the replenishment of American weapons that had been moved to Kyiv.

But the future Congress, which will be controlled by Republicans, is cool to this request, writes The Wall Street Journal.