US sending about $300 million in military aid to Ukraine

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and MATTHEW LEE
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is sending Ukraine about $300 million in additional military aid, including an enormous amount of artillery rounds, howitzers, air-to-ground rockets and ammunition as the launch of the spring offensive against Russian forces approaches. The Pentagon says the new package includes Hydra-70 rockets, which are unguided rockets that are fired from aircraft. It also includes an undisclosed amount of rockets for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, missiles and Carl Gustaf anti—tank rifles. The weapons will be pulled from Pentagon stocks. This is the 37th package of  Pentagon stocks to go to Ukraine since the war began in February 2022, and it brings the total U.S. military aid to about $36 billion.