NATO announces that Ukraine will receive more heavy weapons in the “near future”

Ukraine will receive more heavy weapons from Western countries soon, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview published in a German newspaper on Sunday.

Ukraine has pushed hard for heavy weapons, including tanks, but the West has been reticent for fear of being directly involved in the war or provoking Russia.

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“The recent promises of heavy weapons equipment are significant, and I look forward to more in the near future,” declared stoltenberg to the Handelsblatt newspaper.

This week, the head of the NATO plans to meet with the Contact Group for the Defense of Ukrainewhich coordinates the supply of weapons to kyiv, at the Ramstein airbase in Germany.

“We are in a decisive phase of the war,” Stoltenberg said.

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“So it is important that we deliver to Ukraine the weapons you need added.

After the Russian invasion of February 24, 2022, and after the first few months in which the troops of putin They conquered ground, the Ukrainians have managed to change the dynamics and liberate several areas of the northeast and south of the country.

During that period, hehe Western allies have supplied Ukraine with increasingly powerful weapons.

Earlier this month, France, Germany and the United States promised to send French AMX-10 RC tanks, 40 German Marder infantry carriers and 50 American Bradley armored vehicles.

Pressure has increased for kyiv’s allies to go further and hand over battle tanks.

stoltenberg said that Russian President Vladimir Putin made a mistake in attacking Ukraine.

“He overestimated the strength of his own strength. We have seen his mistakes, his lack of confidence, leadership problems, poor equipment ”, he claimed.

But the Russians “have shown that they are prepared to take heavy casualties to achieve their objectives,” he concluded.

Source: Elcomercio

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