REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Pool Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The United States will provide $425 million worth of additional arms and equipment to Ukraine for its ongoing fight against Russia's invasion, the Biden administration announced on Friday.
The package uses the last of the funds in the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), a more than $18 billion fund that allowed the Biden administration to buy weapons from industry, rather than pull from U.S. weapons stocks.
Biden, a Democrat, is calling on U.S. lawmakers to approve more aid for Kyiv.
Since the Russian invasion in February 2022 the U.S. has sent about $44 billion worth of security assistance to Ukraine.
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