
The U.S. on Tuesday approved $2.6 billion in new weapons aid for Ukraine, to include additional munitions for Patriot and NASAMS air defense systems and counter-drone capabilities. The latest security assistance package is split between $500 billion in equipment to be drawn from existing Pentagon inventories and $2.1 billion in capabilities to be procured from industry with Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) funds. The drawdown portion of the package includes the additional munitions for the Raytheon Technologies [RTX]-built Patriot air…