WASHINGTON, April 13. /TASS/. The US government will announce new arms supplies to Ukraine, worth $750 million in total, Reuters reported on Tuesday citing two US officials.

The deliveries will be funded as part of the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), in which the president can authorize the transfer of articles and services without congressional approval in response to an emergency, the agency reported.

The White House said on April 8 that since the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine it had already provided security aid to the Kiev government worth $1.7 billion.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an early morning televised address that he had launched a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for help from the leaders of the Donbass republics. He stressed that Moscow had no intention of occupying Ukrainian territories, the sole purpose of the operation, the leader stressed, is the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.