NATO will help Ukraine buy weapons to fight Russia

The NATO will help Ukraine to establish their own system of arms purchases that is “effective” to face the invasion of Russiasaid Tuesday the secretary general of the Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg.

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In addition, NATO, Ukraine and the European Union agreed today to convene a group of experts on arms purchases to see how they can help Kiev to “ensure you get the weapons you need”Stoltenberg said.

The NATO Secretary General met today with the Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, and the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, in the week of the first anniversary of the Russian invasion and at a time when Kiev asks its partners to offer it powerful weapons.

“We have to be cognizant of the fact that since February 2022, Ukraine and its closest partners are carrying out the biggest logistics operation since World War II, and behind the big political decisions and declarations, there are millions of issues. that have to be resolved”Kuleba said.

He added that, “The more coordinated we are, the sooner the Ukrainian Army will be able to expel the Russian from the territory of Ukraine.”

In this regard, he noted that during today’s meeting, NATO, the EU and Ukraine pledged to “answer” three main questions: how to train Ukrainian soldiers, how to produce and buy weapons and ammunition and how to deliver them in the field. battle “more effectively.”

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“Let’s be frank, no one expected this war to last so long and that is why, at a certain moment, a situation arose in which production had to be increased”continued the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, noting that so far “not enough has been done”.

Regarding the EU’s support for Kiev to help it acquire weapons, Borrell was in favor of using the European Peace Support Fund, which the Twenty-seven have used since the start of the war for this purpose, and asked the States members “political will” to contribute more money.

Precisely, the foreign ministers of the EU discussed yesterday Estonia’s plan to jointly buy ammunition worth 4,000 million euros.

For his part, Stoltenberg recalled that NATO will support the increase in the ammunition levels of the allies, which will also help to recover their own weapons reserves that have been emptied due to support for Ukraine.

Source: Elcomercio

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