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US preparing additional $800m in military aid for Ukraine: Report

The US has provided Ukraine with weapons including the Javelin anti-tank missile system [File: Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters]

The United States is readying about $800m of additional military aid to Ukraine and could announce the plan as soon as Friday, three sources familiar with the matter have told the Reuters news agency.

US President Joe Biden would authorise the assistance using his Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows the president to approve the transfer of excess weapons from US stocks, the sources told Reuters.

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