
The U.S. on Thursday approved a new $400 million weapons package for Ukraine, to include the first delivery of Avenger air defense systems. The new security assistance deal, which is the 25th drawdown of equipment from Pentagon inventories, also includes providing missiles for Raytheon Technologies’ [RTX] HAWK air defense systems that Spain is delivering to Ukraine. “With Russia's unrelenting and brutal air attacks on Ukrainian critical infrastructure, additional air defense capabilities are critical. The HAWK missiles, which will be refurbished…