Reference News Network, July 11 report: According to the website of Singapore's "Lianhe Zaobao", two sources said that US President Trump will use a presidential power that former President Biden often used, to send weapons to Ukraine for the first time.
Reuters reported on the 10th that this will be the first time Trump has supplied weapons to Kyiv since returning to the White House in January, indicating his new interest in defending Ukraine.
According to sources, the Trump team will use the "presidential drawdown authority" to select some weapons from the US arsenal and send them to Ukraine. One of them said that the value of these weapons is about 300 million dollars.
They revealed that the weapons that may be sent to Ukraine include defensive "Patriot" missiles and offensive medium-range rockets, but the specific equipment has not been determined. One of the informed sources said that this will be decided at a meeting on the 10th.
The "presidential drawdown authority" allows the US president to extract weapons from the weapon reserves to help allies in an emergency situation. Trump said a few days ago that the US will send more weapons to Ukraine to help Ukraine resist Russia's increasingly fierce attacks.
So far, the Trump administration has only sent weapons authorized by former President Biden. Biden is a strong supporter of Ukraine. The Pentagon and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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