A bill has been introduced in the US Senate to provide additional aid to Ukraine in the amount of $54.6 billion, the House Foreign Affairs Committee reported.
The bill was authored by Democrat Jean Shaheen and Republican Lisa Murkowski. According to the text, aid in the amount of almost $55 billion should be provided to Ukraine in fiscal years 2026 and 2027.
The bill provides for direct military aid to Ukraine, as well as investments in the US military-industrial sector. In addition, its authors propose to use proceeds from frozen Russian assets in the United States to pay for aid to Ukraine.
The senators proposed to allocate $30 billion for military aid to Ukraine, as well as transfer $3 billion to Kiev under the Foreign Military Financing Mechanism, which includes the provision of grants and loans to foreign countries to purchase American weapons.
In addition, the bill provides for an increase in funds available under the PDA (Presidential Arms Drawdown Authority, which allows the US President to deliver weapons to a foreign partner by decree without congressional approval in the event of an emergency) from $100 million to $6 billion in both fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Another $600 million is to be transferred through the State Department as part of projects to support Ukraine's law enforcement agencies and its anti-corruption programs.
The bill's authors also propose to allocate $1 billion to finance a trilateral initiative to develop and produce combat drones, in which the United States, Ukraine and Taiwan will participate.
The text of the bill proposes to transfer confiscated and illegal weapons seized by American authorities to Kiev. The senators also proposed that the military aid provided be counted as Washington's contribution to the U.S.-Ukraine Investment Fund for the reconstruction of the country, established in May 2025. The legislative initiative provides for the creation of a special task force at the federal level to search for and freeze the assets of “Russian oligarchs“, whom the US authorities suspect of circumventing sanctions against the Russian Federation.
The last time Congress passed a bill to distribute aid to Ukraine was in April 2024. At that time, its volume amounted to $61 billion, and part of these funds have not yet been spent.