Promises of delivery of equipment tend to spread over time, a sign that the allied arsenals are “under tension”.
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No question of dropping Ukraine. Six months to the day after the start of the “special military operation” launched by Vladimir Putin, Western leaders multiplied, Wednesday, August 24, the support marks for the Ukrainian people, which celebrated the 31 > Anniversary of its independence in a mixture of patriotic fervor and mourning. It was a question of displaying a collective determination in the face of questions about a possible weariness of Western public opinion, while war is anchored over time.
“Today and every day, we hold alongside the Ukrainian people to proclaim that the darkness that animates autocracy do not make the weight in the face of the flame of freedom which illuminates the souls of free peoples everywhere” said US President Joe Biden in a statement. “You hold and you know how to count on our support, to everyone, today as tomorrow,” abounded Emmanuel Macron in a video subtitled in Ukrainian. For his part, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson went to kyiv for the third time since the start of the Russian invasion.
To words, the Western allies have joined the acts. The United States announced, on Wednesday, a new aid tranche of $ 2.98 billion (as many euros) in Ukraine, the largest since the start of the conflict. Mr. Biden clarified that “this will allow [it] to Ukraine to acquire anti -aircraft defense systems, artillery and ammunition, drones and radars, to ensure that she can defend herself on the long term “. These include six NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems, twenty-four radars against artillery fire, antidron systems and more than 300,000 artillery and mortar shells.
More static phase
Europeans are not to be outdone. According to Reuters, Germany is committed to delivering 500 million euros in additional arms, in particular “three other Iris-T anti-aircraft systems, a dozen emergency armored vehicles, twenty rocket launcher systems, ammunition of precision and antidron systems “. This shipment must nevertheless receive the approval of the Bundestag before being formalized. Norway and the United Kingdom will provide eight hundred and fifty black Hornet microdrones, while Slovakia has announced the sending to Ukraine of thirty infantry vehicles.
While the conflict has entered a more static phase and threatens to extend, the countries of the European Union also plan to launch a program of “training and assistance” to the army of kyiv, in Deploying training places in countries close to Ukraine. “A war that lasts and which seems to have to last requires an effort not only in terms of the supply of equipment, but also training and assistance to the organization of the army”, pleaded, Monday August 22, the High representative of the European Union for foreign policy, Josep Borrell. The proposal must be discussed in Prague, Monday August 29, during a Council of European Defense Ministers.
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