 defense secretary lloyd austin said tuesday that the united states will soon announce an additional 2.3 billion dollars in security assistance for ukraine to include anti-tank weapons interceptors and munitions for patriot and other air defense systems his remarks came as ukraine's defense minister met with him at the pentagon and they mark a strong response to pleas from kiev for helping in battling russian forces in the dnesk region of that total 150 million dollars of the aid will come from the presidential drawdown authority