Read also: Republicans will not support aid to Ukraine without national security package “The continued lack of funding has forced us to pause drawing down additional items from our inventories, given the implications for our own military readiness,” Ryder stated. “And this, of course, prevents us from meeting Ukraine’s most urgent battlefield needs to include things like artillery rounds, anti-tank weapons, air defense interceptors.” Pentagon will continue to work closely with Congress and call for the allocation of additional funding as soon as possible, according to Ryder. “I don’t want to …