“The authority... to direct the drawdown of up to $20 million in defense articles and services of the Department of Defense and military education and training to provide assistance for the Government of Ukraine,” the Presidential Memorandum says, specifying that another $1.5 million could be used to offer “nonlethal commodities and services.”

Earlier Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said, that American instructors will start training Ukrainian special-operations troops this November.

“We have agreed that the best US instructors will finally start training the Ukrainian special forces, our special-operations troops, starting from November,” Poroshenko said in New York after meeting representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora living in the US.

This new US assistance will aid other foreign military instructors, including Americans, who are already training the Ukrainian National Guard.