Washington announced that it would provide $3 billion in military assistance for Ukraine, amid the ongoing Russian invasion.
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the assistance, which will be detailed later by the Pentagon, is expected to include Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, MRAPs and other personnel carriers, and self-propelled howitzers.
Washington and Berlin announced the previous day that they would provide armored vehicles – Bradleys from the United States and Marders from Germany – but did not provide details.
Berlin said Friday that it would send about 40 of the Marder vehicles to Ukraine within weeks, and that training on them would be provided in Germany.
Both they and the Bradleys – which are usually armed with a 25 mm autocannon, a 7.62 mm machine gun and anti-tank missiles – will provide Ukrainian forces with additional firepower.
National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told journalists that the Bradleys “are very significant in terms of being able to do what we call combined arms maneuver warfare,” an area in which the Pentagon has said it will provide training to Kyiv’s forces.
The vehicles are “very much tied to the war that we’re seeing on the ground right now and what we anticipate we’ll see throughout the winter months,” Kirby said.
Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said the previous day that the Bradley is “not a tank, but it’s a tank killer.”
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