In a new round of talks with his partners at the US base in Ramsteinin Germany, the American Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, stated that kyiv is not only resisting the Russian invaders, but is carrying out a counteroffensive in the south. “We are seeing demonstrable success in our common efforts on the battlefield,” he said.
The new help includes rocket launcher systems of the GMLRS type, “105 mm howitzers, artillery ammunition, Humvees, armored ambulances, anti-tank systems, light weapons and much more,” Austin told reporters.
Apart from this direct aid of 675 million dollars, the US State Department announced this Thursday another 2,000 million dollars of aid to Ukraine and 18 of its neighbors, in the form of credits and subsidies to buy military material from the United States.
International support in the form of ammunition
The Ramstein base meeting, the fifth of the Ukraine Defense Contact Groupaims to demonstrate the “unity and solidarity” of Ukraine’s allies, according to the US Chief of Staff, General Mark Milley.
Representatives from more than 40 countries and international organizations are meeting to address the challenges posed by the conflict in weapons matter.
“Ammunition consumption is very important in this war,” General Milley explained to the press. The objective is “to try to determine the needs, the demands and then compare them with the offer, that is, the stocks of the countries or what the defense industry can produce,” he added.
Artillery is decisive in this conflict. The armies of Ukraine and Russia face each other in a war of attrition It consumes a lot of ammo.
Ukraine launched a counteroffensive in the south of the country last week. the ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyhas repeatedly said that he wants to recover “all the regions under Russian occupation”, including crimeawhich Russia annexed in 2014.
For its part, Russia resorted to North Korea to buy large quantities of rockets and artillery shells, according to the United States.
United States, the largest supplier
The United States, the largest provider of military aid to Ukraine, pledged in August to supply various weapons worth 13.5 billion dollarsbetween them Javelin anti-tank missilesartillery pieces and projectiles compatible with the artillery systems of the NATO.
Kyiv wants ATACMS-type longer-range weaponswhich can strike at 300 kilometers, but the United States refuses to give them to them, fearing that these missiles could be aimed at targets in Russia, which could lead to an aggravation of the conflict.
“The current US policy is that we don’t send ATACMS,” Milley said. “We have had this conversation several times with my counterpart and other Ukrainian officials.”
“We are sending Himars with GMLERSand those systems have proven to be very, very effective against Russian forces,” he added. “We believe that the range of the Himars is sufficient to meet the needs of the Ukrainians in their current fight.”
The United States supplies three-quarters of NATO’s standard missiles, said US General Staff spokesman Col. Dave Butler.
Source: Ambito
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