{"id":30138,"date":"2023-01-07T18:33:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T18:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=30138"},"modified":"2023-01-07T18:33:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T18:33:33","slug":"us-announces-3bn-in-military-assistance-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2023\/01\/07\/us-announces-3bn-in-military-assistance-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"US announces $3bn in military assistance for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Desk: The United States on Friday announced a major military assistance package for Ukraine that is valued at more than $3 billion and includes 50 Bradleys and dozens of other armored vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The assistance &#8212; $2.85 billion drawn from US inventories and $225 million in foreign military financing &#8212; does not include advanced Western tanks sought by Kyiv, but will still provide significant additional firepower for its forces.<\/p>\n<p>It is &#8220;the largest security assistance package in total value that we have committed so far,&#8221; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper told journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The marquee items in the package are the Bradleys, which come with 500 TOW anti-tank missiles and 250,000 rounds of ammunition for their 25mm autocannons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Desk: The United States on Friday announced a major military assistance package for Ukraine that is valued at more than $3 billion and includes 50 Bradleys and dozens of other armored vehicles. The assistance &mdash; $2.85 billion drawn from US inventories and $225 million in foreign military financing &mdash; does not include advanced Western tanks sought by Kyiv, but will still provide significant additional firepower for its forces. It is &ldquo;the largest security assistance package in total value that we have committed so far,&rdquo; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30140,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30138\/revisions\/30140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}