An additional $200 million US military aid package for Ukraine may be announced as early as Wednesday.

VOA journalist Carla Babb reported on this.

According to Babb, the additional US military aid package will include AIM-9 missiles, TOW anti-tank missiles, ammunition for HIMARS rocket systems, precision-guided munitions, and 155-mm and 105-mm artillery shells.

In addition, the package is likely to include counter-drone equipment, AT4 anti-tank grenade launchers, ammunition for small arms, and much more.

This aid package will be financed from the funds that the Pentagon saved due to an accounting error.

The funds allow to send weapons and ammunition to Kyiv despite the exclusion of new aid to Ukraine from the stopgap spending bill that the House of Representatives passed last weekend to avert a shutdown.

Previously, the Pentagon reported that the US Congress should approve additional funding so that the US can simultaneously provide the necessary military assistance to Israel and Ukraine.

As previously reported, the United States has provided about $44 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

The Pentagon still has about $5 billion in congressionally approved funding for Ukrainian military aid after the Pentagon revealed in June that it had overestimated the cost of weapons being delivered to Ukraine by about $6 billion.

U.S. senators from both parties intend to approve aid to Ukraine in the amount of between $50 and $100 billion in the coming weeks.

According to the senators, this will “give Ukraine confidence” and will be better “from a political point of view.”

Such a package could be passed between October 16, when the Senate returns from recess, and November 17, when the current temporary spending bill expires.