Last month, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers that by bolstering the Indian military's capabilities the two nations can work together to uphold a more stable balance of power across the wider Indo-Pacific region.

This marks the first security package the Pentagon has announced for Ukraine since December, at which point it recognised the exhaustion of its replenishment funds. It was only in recent times that officials openly admitted to not just being out of funds for replenishment but also being $10 billion in deficit.