The first shipment from a new, $800 million arms package for Ukraine that U.S. President Joe Biden authorized last week will start flying out of the United States in the next day or so, and will not take long to reach Ukraine, a senior U.S. defense official said on Wednesday.
The official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity, did not specify which systems would be included in the first shipments to Ukraine but said priority would be given to the kinds of defensive weapons already being used by Ukrainian troops.
"We are already aggregating stocks in the United States and we're getting ready to ship them over there," the official said.
(Reporting by Phil Stewart and Katharine Jackson; Editing by Chris Reese)
