US prepares $6 billion long-term aid package to bolster Ukraine’s defenses with no quick end to war in sight

$6 BILLION FOR THE FUTURE: The last time the Ukraine Defense Contact Group met, the United States had little new to offer in aid to Ukraine, its hands tied by the gridlock in Congress. Now flush with $6 billion in emergency funds from the bipartisan foreign assistance package passed this week and signed into law by President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will tout an immediate infusion of $1 billion in weapons and ammunition from U.S. stocks already en route to Ukraine, along with orders for future weapons funded...