After six months of struggle, pro-Trump U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson has agreed to put a bill including aid to Ukraine up for a vote, Forbes writes.
The media outlet noted that it is a question of allocating $60 billion to help Ukraine, of which $34 billion will be used to buy weapons. The rest of the money will be spent on training Ukrainian soldiers, as well as on humanitarian and other non-military aid.
"To get a sense of how many weapons can be purchased with $34 billion, consider that in the first 23 months of Russia's broader war against Ukraine, the United States has provided $45 billion in weapons for Ukraine. That aid should keep Ukraine in arms for another year or more," Forbes writes.
According to journalists, a significant part of the sum may be allocated for the purchase of radars, electronic warfare equipment, UAVs, boats, armored vehicles, and engineering equipment. Special attention will be paid to the purchase of ammunition for artillery and air defense systems, as Ukraine needs this most of all.
According to Forbes, Kyiv could receive at least one million 155-mm artillery shells from the United States. Plants in Texas and Pennsylvania are capable of producing up to 60,000 munitions per month, but the production capacity can be increased to 100,000 per month if funding is allocated.
"There is no reason why most of those 60,000-100,000 shells a month won't make it to Ukraine. This flow of ammunition will add to the hundreds of thousands of shells that the European Union will hand over to Ukraine in the coming weeks and months, as well as the one million shells that the Czech-led coalition consortium will donate to start with," the article said.
Due to this, Ukraine can equal the volume of ammunition produced by the Russian Federation. This will allow it to gain an artillery advantage on the front for the first time in a year, especially the accuracy advantage that these shells have.
