The U.S. is just now beginning to spend the $40 billion aid package approved by Congress, he said.

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), as you will see in the future, will be allocated on a regular basis,” RIA Novosti quotes him. 

Kirby also said that since the start of Russia's special military operation, the United States has provided Ukraine with military assistance in the amount of $5.6 billion.