The U.S. has committed more than $5.6 billion to Ukraine since the start of Russia's invasion.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
The $1 billion is sourced from two types of security aid. About $350 million of it is a drawdown of weapons from Defense Department inventory, and $650 million is sourced from the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative funds used to procure industry contracts to make weapons. President Joe Biden speaks before signing H.R. 3525,"Commission To Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act" during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 13, 2022. The announcement of new aid comes as the Ukrainians and Russians are in a fierce fight in the east of Ukraine, in the Donbas region.
One of the items the Ukrainians have asked for is multiple launch rocket systems in order to provide them more standoff from the barrage of Russian artillery.