Trump's administration notified Congress of the coordination of weapons export for Ukraine by $ 50 million - Kyiv Post

The Trump administration notified the Congress of their intention to allow export to Ukraine military purposes through a direct commercial sales mechanism (DCS) in the amount of over $ 50 million. Kyiv Post writes about this with reference to diplomatic sources. The transaction involves the supply of military goods, technical data and related services to Ukraine. This decision followed shortly after the statement of President Vladimir Zelensky about the intention to purchase from the United States a system of air defense and weapons in the amount of $ 30-50 billion as part of long -term security guarantees.

This is the first such permission from the moment Donald Trump returned to the White House. It was issued only a few weeks after the administration suspended all the military assistance to Ukraine to revise the priorities, focusing on the diplomatic resolution of the conflict, and not the continuation of military pressure.

Prior to this, in the latest assistance to Ukraine, the Congress approved the sale of weapons through DCS for more than $ 1 billion. With the previous administration of Joe Biden, part of these supplies was used to transfer to the country of acutely -deficiency weapons, including fully automatic heavy machine guns.

From 2015 to 2023, the United States secretly authorized export of defense products and services worth more than $ 1.6 billion through the DCS mechanism.