The prime minister of UkraineDenis Shmigal, announced that USA and eight European countries They are ready to deliver to you in the near future. new air defense systems, as well as Patriot and NASAMS model missiles.
“International partners have listened to us. We have convinced them that strengthening Ukraine’s air defence is the first priority,” Prime Minister Shmigal said on Friday, according to Ukrainian news agencies.
Shmigal explained that Italy will deliver its second SAMP-T system, capable of intercepting ballistic missiles, while Germany will do the same with Gepard anti-aircraft armored vehicles and IRIS-T guided missiles.
He explained that the Patriot missiles will be the ones that will arrive in greater numbers thanks to deliveries from countries such as the United States, Germany, Romania, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain and Norway.
He also stressed that Sweden to send two radar surveillance aircraft to Ukraine. “This will allow us to detect air targets even from enemy territory and better prepare to repel attacks,” he warned.
Shmigal also noted that Ukraine will receive US$60 billion in military support from its international partners over the next four years after signing 20 security guarantee agreements with Western countries and the European Union (EU).
“Ukraine has already signed 20 security agreements with its allies, including the EU and the US,” he said at a cabinet meeting.
In Shmigal’s opinion, it is “a unique story that opens up new opportunities for defense cooperation and lays the foundation for our future security in peacetime.”
Before the NATO summit in Washington Ukraine also plans to conclude two more security guarantee agreements with Poland and the Czech Republic, after signing the last one the day before with the entire European Union (EU).
Shmigal also recalled that this year Ukraine will receive an additional USD 50 billion from allies for revenues from Russian assets frozen in the West.
After months of serious shortages, sources from the Ukrainian armed forces told the agency this Friday AFP that Western ammunition supplies are increasing sharply.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces and members of three brigades serving in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, They said they had noticed a recent change compared to the beginning of the year.
“It has improved over the last month and continues to improve, at least as far as 155mm artillery shells are concerned.”he declared to the AFP a Ukrainian sergeant who uses the call sign “Luntik,” a type of military nickname.
He said that in the first quarter of the year, ammunition in his unit had been strictly rationed to “six rounds every 24 hours,” while the limit today is “up to 40 a day,” the sergeant said. In areas like the Kharkiv region, where Russia launched a ground offensive last month, he said “there is no limit.”
In Kharkiv, “the occupier has failed,” the president declared on Friday Volodymyr Zelenskywhile admitting that the situation remained difficult. “Our Ukrainian forces have stabilised the situation and stopped the offensive,” he said.
According to a General Staff source, the ratio between Ukrainian bombings and Russian bombings has moved in kyiv’s favor thanks to the arrival of new Western supplies. “Right now, the ratio of ammunition use is one to three” in favor of Russia, compared to “one to seven” before. “Our supplies have gone up and theirs have gone down”he claimed.
(With information from AFP, EFE and EP)
