At a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyi in Washington, US President Joe Biden will announce a significant new package of security assistance to Ukraine worth about $2 billion, which will include a battery of Patriot air defense systems.
This was reported by a high-ranking White House official in a telephone conversation with the mass media.
According to the government official, Patriot "will become a critically important asset for the protection of the Ukrainian people from barbaric Russian attacks on Ukraine's critical infrastructure."
He informed that training of the Ukrainian military in the use of Patriot will take place in a third country. "It will take some time, but Ukrainian troops will be trained and return to their country to operate this battery," the official said.
The US will also continue to prioritize other forms of air defense support, including NASAMS, HAWKs, Stingers and anti-drone equipment, he said.
"During this visit, we will also be able to celebrate, together with Congress, the work on the adoption of a significant package of additional funding for Ukraine for 2023. And we expect that the bipartisan funding package for Ukraine will amount to more than 40 billion dollars," the representative of the White House said.
On the night of Wednesday, numerous sources in the USA reported on the visit of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi to the United States of America.
On the morning of December 21, the Office of the President of Ukraine officially confirmed Zelenskiy's visit to the United States.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy personally announced that he is already on his way to the USA.
The head of state has not left Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war in February 2022.