New US military aid to Ukraine is substantial. During the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at the US base in Ramstein, the United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced an aid of 675 million dollars in the delivery of weapons.
Representatives from more than 40 countries and the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, participate in this meeting in person or remotely. Ukraine’s allies discuss in particular the challenges posed by the conflict in terms of weapons production.
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The objective is “to try to determine the needs, the demands and then compare this with the supply, whether it is the stocks of the countries or what the defense industry can produce,” he said, adding to the plan that brought him from Washington.
Artillery is decisive in the conflict. Particularly hungry for shells of all kinds, the Ukrainian and Russian armies are waging a war of attrition for ammunition, stocks of which are crucial.
Yesterday, in Paris, the Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu, the general staffs and the arms manufacturers met to accelerate the production of the French arms groups.
The conflict in Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, has confirmed that the consumption of ammunition (projectiles, bombs and missiles) is staggering duringhigh intensity conflict. France has provided Kyiv with substantial aid, including 18 Caesar guns taken from army stocks. To replace them, France placed an order for 18 new weapons from Nexter.
Source: BFM TV
