US announces new Patriot missiles for Ukraine as part of new $6B aid package

I’m also pleased to announce today an additional commitment of $6 billion through our Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative that will allow us to procure new capabilities for Ukraine from US industry. This is the largest Security Assistance package that we’ve committed to date. It will include critical interceptors for Ukraine’s Patriot and Nissan’s air defense systems, more counter drone systems and support equipment, significant amounts of artillery ammunition and air to ground munitions and maintenance and sustainment support. I would caution us all in terms of making Patriot the silver bullet, I would say that it’s going to, it’s going to be the integrated era and missile defense as we said so many times before. That really turns a tie and so there are other capabilities that they need that that we really pushed hard to get and we may be able to get to to the Ukrainians a bit faster, but this work continues on.