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{{Infobox research project | name = {{big|Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative}} | title = (part of military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War) | image = Seal of the United States Department of Defense.svg | image_size = | caption = {{small|Seal of the United States Department of Defense}} | keywords = | project_type = Security assistance and intelligence support for Ukraine{{efn|Including training, equipment, logistics support, and supplies and services to military and other security forces of Ukraine}} | funding_agency = Department&nbsp;of&nbsp;Defense | sponsors = | framework_programme = US&nbsp;security&nbsp;assistance for&nbsp;Ukraine{{efn|with two other programme streams being FMF and PDA}} | project_reference = {{Collapsible list|titlestyle = background:transparent;text-align:left;font-weight:normal; |title = Legislation:|{{USStatute|114|92}}|{{USStatute|117|128}}|{{USStatute|117|328}}|{{USStatute|118|50}}}} | research_objective = | location = {{hlist|Europe|USA}} | coordinator = U.S. Congress | participants = {{hlist|US Embassy (Ukraine)|SAG-U (Europe)|US SAOs (indirectly)}} | partners = {{hlist|NSATU|UDCG|International&nbsp;Donor Coordination&nbsp;Centre&nbsp;}} | budget = &nbsp;&nbsp;{{USD|33,989.8}}&nbsp;''million'' {{small|appropriated&nbsp;by&nbsp;Congress as&nbsp;of&nbsp;{{end date|2025|9|30}}}} <hr> <hr> | funding = <ref name="auto1">{{Cite web |last1=Welt |first1=Cory |last2=Arabia |first2=Christina L. |last3=Bowen |first3=Andrew S.|date=March 28, 2022 |title=U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine |url=https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12040 |access-date=July 25, 2025 |website=at=Table3}}</ref> {{Collapsible list|titlestyle = background:transparent;text-align:left;font-weight:normal; |title = {{small|by&nbsp;fiscal&nbsp;years,&nbsp;in&nbsp;''millions&nbsp;(USD)'':}}{{efn|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.<ref name="OAR1">{{cite report |url=https://www.stateoig.gov/uploads/report/report_pdf_file/oar_q2_mar2025_final.pdf |title=Special Inspector General for OAR Report to the Congress, Q2FY2025 |date=2 May 2025 |access-date=31 July 2025 |via=stateoig.gov}}</ref>{{rp|27 Table 5}}}} |FY2016 &numsp;&numsp;&nbsp;{{USD|226.5}} |FY2017 &numsp;&numsp;&nbsp;{{USD|148.6}} |FY2018 &numsp;&numsp;&nbsp;{{USD|195.5}} |FY2019 &numsp;&numsp;&nbsp;{{USD|214.8}} |FY2020 &numsp;&numsp;&nbsp;{{USD|256.7}} |FY2021 &numsp;&numsp;&nbsp;{{USD|275.7}} |''FY2022 &numsp;&nbsp;{{USD|6,300.0}}'' |''FY2023 &nbsp;{{USD|12,300.0}}'' |''FY2024 &nbsp;{{USD|14,072.0}}''}} <hr> | start = 2016 fiscal year | end = present | website = }} {{Infobox militant organization | name = {{big|Security Assistance Group Ukraine}} | founding_leader = USEUCOM {{small|(ADCON)}} | founder = Department&nbsp;of&nbsp;Defense | logo = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = 240815-D-QM467-0002.jpg | image_size = 300px | caption = Armed Forces of Ukraine Training-providing Countries | other_name = SAG–Ukraine, SAG-U | leader = USAREUR-AF {{small|(OPCON)}} | leader1_title = COM SAG-U | leader1_name = LTG Curtis A. Buzzard | foundation = USAI (Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative) | leader2_title = Unit type | leader2_name = Operational command | dates = {{Start date|2022|11|4}}-&nbsp;pr. | dissolved = | merger = | split = | predecessor = EUCOM Control Center-Ukraine/<br>Task Force Dragon<ref name=NYT2025/> | merged = | successor = | country = ''(recipient)''&numsp;Ukraine<br>''(forward basing only)'' | allegiance = {{military|US}} | motives =Russia deterrence | area = USEUCOM AOR | headquarters = {{flag|DE}}&nbsp;{{small|''(Commd.&nbsp;Center)''}}<br>{{small|{{coord|qid=Q327689}}}} |slogan = |anthem = | status = Multinational, active | size = HHC-equivalent<ref name="USAFbio"/> | partof = Operation Atlantic Resolve&nbsp;(as&nbsp;Command) | allies = ''Commands&numsp;&nbsp;•&nbsp;&numsp;Alliances:'' {{small|{{hlist|{{flagdeco|EU}} EUMAM UA|UDCG|22px NSATU|IDCC{{efn|Before 2025, having handed over its responsibilities to NSATU.<ref name=OAR/>{{rp|37}}<ref name=OAR2>{{cite report |url=https://www.stateoig.gov/uploads/report/report_pdf_file/oar_q3_fy25_final_508.pdf |title=Special Inspector General for OAR Report to the Congress, Q3FY2025 |date=15 August 2025 |access-date=15 August 2025 |via=stateoig.gov}}</ref>{{rp|44 Table 10}}}}|MNF-U}}}} | opponents = ''(to be deterred):'' {{hlist|{{flagdeco|RUS}} Armed Forces of RF|{{BLR}}{{efn|Since 2022, after Belarus allowed Russia to use its territory to launch the invasion and to launch missiles into Ukraine. See: Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine}}}} | crimes = 3 RUS-UKR front-line monthly movements{{efn|{{as of|2025|7}} by '''SAG-U Operations Kyiv''', at least, to the Ukraine-Russia front-line locations, non-locally authorized.<ref name=OAR/>{{rp|37}}}} |flag = | website = {{URL|https://www.dvidshub.net/unit/SAG-U |unit/SAG-U}} | module = {{collapsible list|title={{nobold|Notes}}|{{notelist}}}} | module2 = {{Infobox military unit | unit_name= {{big|Overwiew}}<br> {{nobold|{{lang|uk|«Група безпекового сприяння Україні»,|i=yes}}<br>{{lang|uk|Європейське&nbsp;командування}}&nbsp;{{small|ЗС&nbsp;США &nbsp;''(Ukrainian)''<br>{{abbr.}}}}}} {{small|SAG-U}} | native_name = Part of US spending since Russian invasion<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-political-military-affairs/releases/2025/01/u-s-security-cooperation-with-ukraine |title=U.S. Security Cooperation with Ukraine–Fact Sheet |via=state.gov |publisher= U.S. Department of State |date=12 March 2025 |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref> | image = Wiesbaden Naming Ceremonies (7371544584).jpg | image_size = 300px |alt = | caption = Clay Kaserne (garrison patron Gen. Clay, Mil. Governor of U.S. Occupation Zone in Germany, 1947-&nbsp;49). 2012 | type = Title 10 combined joint service long-term&nbsp;operational&nbsp;assistant&nbsp;command | role = Provisioning&nbsp;of&nbsp;military&nbsp;training, education and logistics to AFU | size = 329&nbsp;personnel&nbsp;as&nbsp;of&nbsp;{{start date|2025|4}}{{efn|Including two of its planning directorate placed in NSATU command to coordinate AFU's training requirements.<ref name="OAR1" />{{rp|45}} SAG-U's multinational personnel is collocated with NSATU HQ<ref name="REU">{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/military-aid-increasingly-focuses-boosting-ukraines-defence-industry-2025-07-02/ |title=Military aid increasingly focuses on boosting Ukraine's defence industry |first1=Sabine |last1=Siebold |work=Reuters |date=2 July 2025 |access-date=16 July 2025 |quote=The United States, however, provides NSATU's commander and about 9% of its personnel in Wiesbaden.}}</ref> (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).<ref name=OAR2/>{{rp|44}} SAG-U US-&nbsp;only personnel includes up to 60 experts at SAG-U Operations Kyiv (SOK) under authority of the Chief of US Mission in Kyiv.<ref name=OAR>{{cite report |url=https://media.defense.gov/2024/Nov/13/2003583230/-1/-1/1/OAR_Q4_SEP2024_FINAL_508.PDF |title=Special Inspector General for OAR Report to the Congress, Q4FY2024 |date=13 November 2024 |access-date=28 July 2025 |via=media.defence.gov}}</ref>{{rp|37 Table 14}}}} | command_structure = 20px USEUCOM (administratively, within&nbsp;Operation&nbsp;Atlantic&nbsp;Resolve)<ref name=CRS> {{citeweb |last1=Belkin |first1=Paul |last2=Bowen |first2=Andrew S. |last3=Nelson |first3=Rebecca M. |last4=Welt |first4=Cory |via=Congress.gov, Library of Congress |url=https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12277 |title=Russia’s War Against Ukraine: U.S. Policy and the Role of Congress |date=23 December 2024 |access-date= 27 July 2025 |publisher=Congressional Research Service}}</ref><br />14px USAREUR-AF (operationally)<ref name= NYT2025/> | garrison = Clay Kaserne, Wiesbaden-Erbenheim,&nbsp;Hesse,&nbsp;Germany | garrison_label = Command<br> Centre | allegiance = 23px US Army | start_date = APR 2022 {{small|''(inaugurated)''{{efn|As Task Force Dragon, at the Base's Tony Bass Auditorium, funded by European Deterrence Initiative.<ref name= NYT2025>{{Cite news |last=Entous |first=Adam |title=The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine |work=The New York Times |date=29 March 2025 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250330021832/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html |archive-date=30 March 2025}}</ref>}}}}<br>NOV&nbsp;4,&nbsp;2022&nbsp;{{small|(''established''){{efn|As long-term assistance command.<ref>{{cite paper |quote=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. 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Meredith III |title=Building Strategic Lethality: Special Operations Models for Joint Force Learning and Leader Development |journal=Joint Force Quarterly |number=118, 3rd Quarter 2025 |pages= 30-41 |url=https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/joint-force-quarterly/vol118/iss3/6. |access-date=29 August 2025}}</ref>}}}} |disbanded = | current_commander = LTG&numsp;&nbsp;Curtis&numsp;Alan&numsp;&nbsp;Buzzard 18px US Army&nbsp;{{small|(JUL'24}}-pres.){{efn|As nominated for OAR.<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://archive.today/20251206065524/https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3848844/general-officer-announcements/ |archive-date=6 December 2025 |url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3848844/general-officer-announcements/|title=General Officer Announcements|date=2024-07-24 |website=U.S. Department of Defense |access-date = 25 July 2025}}</ref> Since December 2024, concurrently COM NSATU.<ref>{{cite web |title=About NSATU |url=https://shape.nato.int/resources/site21749/General/NSATU_Trifold_from%20J10_for%20distribution_A4%20Size.pdf|website=shape.nato.int |access-date=16 July 2025}}</ref>}} | commander1_label = Commander<br>3-star rank | commander2_label = DCOM<br>2-star rank | commander2 = Major&nbsp;General&nbsp;Duane&nbsp;R.&nbsp;Miller{{army|USA}}<ref> #{{cite web |url=https://www.dvidshub.net/news/499372/task-force-saber-assumes-jmtg-u-mission-during-transfer-authority-ceremony |title=Task Force Saber assumes JMTG-U mission during transfer of authority ceremony |date=1 June 2025 |access-date=8 October 2025 |first=Tam |last=Le |publisher= 7th Army Training Command}} #{{cite web |title=General Officer Assignments |url=https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3761534/general-officer-assignments/ |publisher=U.S. Department of War |archive-url=https://archive.today/20251206064721/https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3761534/general-officer-assignments/ |archive-date=6 December 2025 |date=1 May 2024 |access-date=30 November 2025}}</ref> | commander3_label = Deputy<br> commander | commander3 = Major&nbsp;General&numsp;&numsp;Kevin&nbsp;V.&nbsp;Doyle {{air force|USA}}{{efn|From June 2024.<ref name="USAFbio">{{cite web |title=Major General Kevin V. 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'''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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) Archives |url=https://ua.usembassy.gov/tag/ukraine-security-assistance-initiative-usai/ |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=U.S. Embassy in Ukraine |language=en-US}}</ref>

== 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.<ref name="auto1" />

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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 2021 |title=Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 President's Budget: Direct War and Enduring Cost Appendix |url=https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/fy2022/budget_justification/pdfs/01_Operation_and_Maintenance/O_M_VOL_1_PART_2/DSCA_DWE.pdf |access-date=April 2, 2022 |website=Defense Security Cooperation Agency}}</ref>

== Security Assistance Group Ukraine (SAG-U) == Security Assistance Group-Ukraine (SAG-U) personnel, including those forward-deployed as part of SAG-U Operations-Kyiv, has been providing advising support to Ukrainian defense leaders, including the AFU and the Ukrainian National Guard.

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.<ref name= eccuIdcc >{{Cite news |last=Machi |first=Vivienne |date=21 July 2022 |title=Inside the multinational logistics cell coordinating military aid for Ukraine |url=https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2022/07/21/inside-the-multinational-logistics-cell-coordinating-military-aid-for-ukraine/ |newspaper=Defense News |location=Stuttgart, Germany}}</ref> 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.<ref name= orenBarbara >{{cite news |first1=Oren |last1=Liebermann |first2=Barbara |last2=Starr |newspaper=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/29/politics/pentagon-new-command-arming-training-ukraine |date=29 September 2022 |title=Pentagon working to form new command to coordinate arming and training Ukraine}}</ref><ref name= dougWare >{{cite news |first=Doug G. |last=Ware |work=Stars and Stripes |url=https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-11-04/ukraine-military-aid-russian-war-7924990.html |date=4 November 2022 |title=Pentagon announces another $400 million in military aid to Ukraine, establishes headquarters in Germany to handle shipments and training |location=Washington |quote=The department also announced the creation of a new security headquarters in Germany that will handle weapons shipments and personnel training. It will be called the Security Assistance Group Ukraine, or SAGU.}}</ref><ref name=" megMyers ">{{cite news |first=Meghann |last=Myers |work=Military Times |url=https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/11/09/long-term-assistance-command-to-oversee-training-mission-with-ukraine/ |date=9 November 2022 |title=Long-term assistance command to oversee training mission with Ukraine}}</ref><ref name="auto1" /> This long-term assistance command<ref name=" megMyers " /> 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.<ref name="AGUTO"> #{{cite web |publisher=General Officer Management Office |url=https://www.gomo.army.mil/public/Biography/usa-9725/antonioa-agutojr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610073922/https://www.gomo.army.mil/public/Biography/usa-9725/antonioa-agutojr |url-status=dead |archive-date=2021-06-10 |date=22 December 2022 |title=Lieutenant General Antonio A. Aguto, Jr. (USA)}} #{{cite news |author=Jonathan Turner |work=Our Quad Cities |url= https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-news/first-army-to-get-new-commanding-general/ |date=2 December 2022 |title= Aguto will lead a new Army headquarters in Germany after leaving Rock Island Arsenal}}</ref>

By January 2023 500 Ukrainian soldiers per month were being trained.<ref name= saguTrainees> {{cite news |access-date=12 November 2025 |first1=Lara |last1=Seligman |first2=Paul |last2=McLeary |work=Politico |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/18/major-military-package-ukraine-russia-00078331 |date=18 January 2023 |title=U.S. prepping major military package for Ukraine |quote=Friday's announcement is expected to include Stryker vehicles, but not tanks.}}</ref> In December 2024, Curtis A. Buzzard assumed command.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.europeafrica.army.mil/ArticleViewPressRelease/Article/3861171/press-release-security-assistance-group-ukraine-change-of-command/ |title=Press Release - Security Assistance Group–Ukraine Change of Command |date=24 December 2024 |access-date=12 November 2025 |publisher=USAREUR-AF}}</ref>

{{as of|2025|12}}, Security Assistance Group–Ukraine (SAG-U) functions as the primary US-led operational command responsible for coordinating security assistance, oversight, and logistics for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). Headquartered at Lucius D. Clay Kaserne in Wiesbaden, Germany, the group was formally established in November 2022. To ensure strategic alignment between US bilateral efforts and the broader alliance, the group is led by Lieutenant General Curtis A. Buzzard, who is "dual-hatted" as the commander of the NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU).<ref name="DoDBuzzard">{{cite web |url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Tag/46791/ |title=General Officer Announcements |publisher=US Department of Defense |date=July 24, 2024 |access-date=Nov 30, 2025}}{{dead link|date=December 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> This integrated leadership structure was formalized in late 2024 to streamline decision-making and minimize redundancy across the multinational coalition.

SAG-U operates within a complex international framework, working in tandem with NSATU to manage functions previously overseen by the ad hoc International Donor Coordination Center (IDCC). In 2025, coordination responsibilities formally transitioned toward a NATO-led model to ensure enduring support regardless of political shifts in individual donor nations.<ref name="PravdaCoordination">{{cite web |author=Ivan Diakonov |archive-url=https://archive.today/20251130090736/https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/01/17/7493994/ |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/01/17/7493994/ |title=NATO takes over coordination of military aid to Ukraine |work=Ukrainska Pravda |date=17 January 2025 |archive-date=November 30, 2025}}</ref> Logistics are executed through Logistics Enabling Nodes (LENs) in Poland, which serve as secure hubs for the receipt, repair, and transfer of military equipment.

Beyond immediate logistics, SAG-U supports the Operational Force Development Framework (OFDeF), a strategic roadmap designed to transform Ukraine’s military into a NATO-interoperable force.<ref name="OFDeF">{{cite web |url=https://shape.nato.int/news-archive/2024/nato-security-assistance-and-training-ukraine-nsatu-is-assisting-ukraine |title=NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine |publisher=Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) |date=July 11, 2024 |access-date=Nov 30, 2025}}</ref> The command facilitates multinational training pipelines; by mid-2025, these initiatives had trained approximately 192,000 Ukrainian personnel across allied nations, managed through the co-located NSATU headquarters.<ref name="SHAPETraining">{{cite web |url=https://shape.nato.int/NSATU/newsroom/commander-nsatu-attends-dialogue-with-ukrainian-defence-minister.aspx |title=Commander NSATU attends dialogue with Ukrainian Defence Minister |publisher=NSATU Public Affairs Office |date=Nov 6, 2025 |access-date=Nov 30, 2025}}</ref>

==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.<ref name="NYT82422">{{cite news |author1=Michael D. Shear |author2=John Ismay |title=Biden announces a nearly $3 billion package of arms and equipment for Ukraine. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/world/europe/biden-ukraine-aid.html |access-date=August 26, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=August 24, 2022}}</ref>

'''Status of Appropriated Funds as of ''FY2025Q3''''' left|thumb|upright=1.36|Appropriations under USAI<ref name=OAR2/>{{rp|30}}

==See also== * {{anl|European Peace Facility}} * {{anl|Foreign Military Financing|abbr=FMF}} * {{anl|Presidential Drawdown Authority|abbr=PDA}} * {{anl|United States Army Security Assistance Command}}

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