The White House warned Monday that the U.S. only has enough money to meet Ukraine's 'urgent battlefield needs' in the short term.
A Ukrainian soldier holds his helmet as he rides an APC in Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, April 26, 2023.The White House warned Monday that the U.S. has only enough money to meet Ukraine's "urgent battlefield needs" in the short term, after Congress left additional funding for Ukraine out of a short-term measure to fund the U.S. government.
About $5.4 billion of the funding is set aside to provide to provide weapons and other military equipment to Ukraine from existing American stocks, the officials said. That money resulted from an accounting error the Pentagon said it fixed earlier this year, an official said. A Ukrainian soldier holds his helmet as he rides an APC in Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, April 26, 2023.The Pentagon has in recent days warned that money is running low -- and that Congress's fight over aid had impacted the U.S. military, too.
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