United States says that it never provided so quick assistance to any country apart from Ukraine

The latest aid package, worth $100 million, was announced on Tuesday. It is meant “to meet an urgent Ukrainian need for additional Javelin anti-armor systems,” the US Defense Department said.

That followed a $300 million package of security assistance announced on April 1 and an $800 million package announced on March 16.

In total, the US has provided $1.7 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began on February 24 and more than $2.4 billion since the Biden administration took office.

At a press conference Wednesday, chief Pentagon spokesman John Kirby emphasized the speed with which that assistance has been delivered.

For the recent aid packages, Kirby said, “from the time the president signs it to it actually arriving in the region it can be as little as four days, and then it’s not like it’s sitting in storage for a week or two.”

At a briefing on March 31, a senior US defense official, speaking anonymously to describe developments in Ukraine, said that the first delivery from a $200 million package approved on March 12 arrived six days later and that first delivery from the $800 million package approved on March 16 arrived on March 20.