The United States said on Monday it will send Ukraine new security assistance valued at $200 million, including air defense munitions, artillery rounds, and additional mine-clearing equipment.
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    WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it will send Ukraine new security assistance valued at $200 million, including air defense munitions, artillery rounds, and additional mine-clearing equipment.

    The assistance will also include anti-armor capabilities, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.

    Ukraine needs weaponry that can be shipped from U.S. stocks in a matter of days or weeks so it can continue to repel Russia’s invasion.

    These are much-needed things," Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his evening address on Monday.

    Beginning to use these discovered funds is significant because they represent the last of the previously congressionally authorized $25.5 billion worth of Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) the administration can utilize to ship weapons from U.S. stocks in the event of an emergency, the U.S. officials said.

    Washington is currently working on a supplemental budget request to continue to aid Kyiv, the U.S. officials said.

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