^Including training, equipment, logistics support, and supplies and services to military and other security forces of Ukraine
^with two other programme streams being FMF and Presidential Drawdown Authority
^FY2016-FY2021, actuals as reported by the Department of Defense; FY2022-FY2024, as appropriated. As of Q2FY2025, $33.512 billion were appropriated, $23.29 billion obligated, and $12.469 billion disbursed under USAI since FY2022.[2]: 27 Table 5
^As of July 2025[update] by SAG-U Operations Kyiv, at least, to the Ukraine-Russia front-line locations, non-locally authorized.[3]: 37
^Before 2025, having handed over its responsibilities to NSATU.[3]: 37 [4]: 44 Table 10
^Including two of its planning directorate placed in NSATU command to coordinate AFU's training requirements.[2]: 45 SAG- U's multinational personnel is collocated with NSATU HQ[8] (prior to 2025, with informal International Donor Coordination Centre, IDCC, of more then 50 countries, under UK Brigadier command; IDCC handed over its responsibilities to NSATU).[4]: 44 SAG- U US- only personnel includes up to 60 experts at SAG-U Operations Kyiv (SOK) under authority of the Chief of US Mission in Kyiv.[3]: 37 Table 14
^As nominated for OAR.[11] Since December 2024, concurrently COM NSATU.[12]
^then COM XVIII Airborne Corps. As Task Force Dragon Commander served till December 2022. Promoted in December 2024 to CG USAREUR-AF overseeing, among others, SAG- U.[6]
^As of August 2025[update] cargo tonnage through Poland LEN hub only[8]
^As of October 2024[update] average US- only SAG- U personnel stationed under authority of the Chief of US Mission in Kyiv, Ukraine.[2]: 58
^As of July 2025[update] by SAG-U Operations Kyiv, at least, to the Ukraine-Russia front-line locations, non-locally authorized.[3]: 37
^Here’s a snapshot of the current NSATU–SAG-U joint efforts that were confirmed at the 21 July 2025 UDCG extended meeting:
US–NATO co‑funding mechanism (new channel announced by US president Donald Trump and Secretary General of NATO Mark Rutte for European and Canadian allies to pool funds to purchase US‑made weapons and technology for Ukraine providing faster access to high‑demand systems);
Air defense boost (packages of Patriot missile systems and other advanced air‑defense assets pledged by allies to counter Russia’s intensified missile and drone strikes);
Industrial and financial backing (long‑term funding streams to expand defense production capacity in Europe and North America to replenish stocks while sustaining Ukraine’s needs over multiple years).
Preceded by EUCOM Control Center-Ukraine/ Task Force Dragon[6]
Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative or USAI is a U.S. Department of Defense-led funding program to increase Ukraine's capacity to defend itself more effectively against Russian aggression through the further training of its Armed Forces, equipment, and advisory initiatives.[13]
Overview
Included in USAI packages were training, equipment, and advising activities, in order to improve Ukraine's defensive capabilities, such as marine domain awareness, operational safety, and capacity of Ukrainian Air Force facilities, as well as its lethality, command, control, and survivability. To counter Russian cyberattacks and misinformation, USAI also supports cyber defense and strategic communications.[1]
The USAI, in collaboration with the United States Department of State, supports a wide range of security assistance activities, including, but not limited to, intelligence support, personnel training, equipment and logistics support, supplies, and other services.[14]
Security Assistance Group Ukraine (SAG-U)
In 2022, SAGU was formed as a point of contact. By 21 July 2022, the EUCOM Control Center-Ukraine/International Donor Coordination Centre (ECCU/IDCC) a joint cell formed in March 2022 had trained 1,500 Ukrainian Armed Forces members on coalition-donated equipment.[15] By 4 November 2022, the equipment shipments, and training measures of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group had become repeatable enough to systematize in a Security Assistance Group Ukraine (SAG-U), based in Wiesbaden, Germany.[16][17][18][1]
This long-term assistance command[18] was initially staffed on an emergency basis by XVIII Airborne Corps commander Christopher T. Donohue. SAGU's first commander, Lieutenant General Antonio Aguto, was approved by the Senate on 22 December 2022.[19]
By January 2023 500 Ukrainian soldiers per month were being trained.[20]
Funding
The $3 billion dispersed through the initiative in August 2022 can be used to purchase equipment, arms, and ammunition directly from U.S. defense contractors.[21]
^Spencer B. Meredith III. "Building Strategic Lethality: Special Operations Models for Joint Force Learning and Leader Development". Joint Force Quarterly (118, 3rd Quarter 2025): 30–41. Retrieved 29 August 2025. Two key organizations have coordinated the broad U.S.-led effort: Security Assistance Group–Ukraine (SAG-U) on the conventional side and CJSOTF-10 for special operations. Both have served as supply hubs and information conduits for the joint force, interagency, and international partners sustaining the Ukrainian war effort.
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