The package, which can be confirmed on Monday, is expected to include ammunition for long-range systems and medical armored vehicles.
The United States is preparing a new $1 billion package of security assistance to Ukraine, including ammunition for long-range weapons and armored medical vehicles, according to Reuters news agency. .
The package will be one of the largest to date and is expected to be announced as early as Monday, three sources briefed on the matter told Reuters.
The United States has given Ukraine about $8.8 billion in aid since Russia invaded on February 24.
Unnamed officials told Reuters that President Joe Biden had yet to sign the next weapons package and warned that the weapons packages could change in value and content before they are signed.
However, if signed in its current form, it would be worth $1 billion and include ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Missile System (HIMARS)and the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) as well as several 50 M113 armored medical transports.
The Pentagon recently announced that Ukrainians will be allowed to receive medical treatment at a US military hospital in Germany near Ramstein Air Base.
Last Monday, the Pentagon announced a separate security assistance package for Ukraine worth up to $550 millionalso includes additional ammo for HIMARS.
The White House declined to comment on the package.
HIMARS played an important role in the battle between Ukraine and Russia, became a war of attrition fought mainly in eastern and southern Ukraine.
Moscow is trying take control Donbas’s largely Russian-speaking Donbas include the provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk, where pro-Moscow separatists seized territory after the Kremlin annexed Crimea to the south in 2014.
So far the US has sent 16 HIMARS to Ukraine and on July 1 promised to send two NASAMS.
Armored aircraft carriers equipped with medical equipment could make the war with Russia more survivable for Ukrainian troops, who could then be sent to Germany for further medical treatment.
The Kyiv government said in June that 100 to 200 Ukrainian troops were killed every day on the battlefield.
