Britain will supply Ukraine with additional anti-aircraft missiles, including munitions capable of shooting down cruise missiles for the first time, Britain’s Defense Ministry said.
The AMRAAM missiles will be supplied “in the coming weeks” to kyiv for use by the US-promised NASAMS air defense system, British Defense said in a statement.
This Wednesday, the United States and 50 countries from the contact group in support of Ukraine spoke out for increasing the production of their defense industries so that kyiv continues to fight the Russian invasion and guarantee its security.
Both the contact group meeting and the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) defense ministers’ meeting, which began Wednesday night with a dinner and will continue on Thursday, were scheduled to address the issue of replenishment of ‘stocks’ of arms and ammunition that countries are running out of.
The United States announced two weeks ago that it will send a new military aid package to Ukraine, worth 1,100 million dollars (1,130 million euros), consisting of weapons and military equipment that also includes 18 new Rocket Artillery Systems High Mobility (HIMARS) . like hundreds of armored vehicles, radars and anti-drone batteries.
The Americans also promised NASAMS surface-to-air missile systems: two for delivery in the coming weeks or months and another six as part of long-term aid.
The German Defense Minister, Christine Lambrecht, said, at the entrance to the meeting, that she is in contact with her country’s industry to try to accelerate the manufacture of weapons and, in this sense, she welcomed the fact that Berlin was able to deliver the Wednesday the first of four Iris-T air defense systems to kyiv, instead of November, as originally planned.
According to President Emmanuel Macron, France will deliver air defense “radar and missile systems” to Ukraine to protect Ukrainians from attacks and “in particular to protect them from drone attacks.”
According to the Chief of Staff of the US Armed Forces, Mark Milley, at the same press conference, the anti-missile defense systems that will be delivered to Ukraine will not allow “to control the entire airspace, but were designed to control priority targets.” . “.” from Kyiv.
Allied sources pointed out that in the Russian missile attack on different Ukrainian cities on Monday, more than half of them were intercepted by the Ukrainian defense.
kyiv had asked its allies to help reinforce its anti-aircraft defense, after two days of intense Russian bombardment throughout the territory, but mainly in the capital, which caused dozens of civilian casualties and destroyed infrastructure.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for the creation of an anti-aircraft “shield” over Ukraine.
This contact group, an initiative of the United States, had its first meeting last April at the American air base in Ramstein, in southwestern Germany.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine has already caused the flight of more than 13 million people -more than six million internally displaced persons and more than 7.6 million to European countries-, according to the most recent data from the UN, which places this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion – justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security – was condemned by the generality of the international community, which has responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing them on Russia. political and economic sanctions.
The UN presented as confirmed since the beginning of the war, which today entered its day 231, 6,221 dead civilians and 9,371 wounded, emphasizing that these figures are well below the real ones.
Source: TSF
