Pentagon will invite $ 1 billion to replace weapons sent to Ukraine in Congress

Israel's military assistance did not affect the supply of weapons to Ukraine because the support mechanisms differ, the US Defense Ministry said Dag Bush. The Pentagon prepares the last request to the US Congress to allocate $ 1 billion to replace the weapons sent to Ukraine after the Republican lawmakers rejected the White House Blishore for assistance in the amount of $ 61. 4 billion. This was reported on December 7 by Defense One.

The US Army Assistant to the US Army Dag Bush said the funds to replenish US reserves were almost exhausted. "There is a little less than a billion right now. However, we are working to use the rest of this amount in anticipation of Congress approval. It will be zero very soon," he said. Bush also explained the mechanisms of military assistance of Israel and Ukraine, which are fundamentally different.

Because of this transmission of the 155-mm artillery ammunition to the Israeli side, it did not affect the supply of weapons to Ukraine. According to the official, the transfer of Israeli weapons was carried out within the framework of a program of fast foreign military sales, which allows to transfer ammunition directly from US military arsenals. While weapons to Ukraine were sent by another mechanism called the presidential authority to reduce weapons.

"We supplied ammunition from different types - everything from helicopters to artillery, some night vision devices - but nothing that could make direct competition because it was already planned to be sent to Ukraine," Bush stressed. Earlier it was reported that according to the former TV presenter Fox News Tucarea Carlson, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin threatened members of the US House of Representatives to send their relatives to the war with the Russian Federation.