The military aid that Volodymyr Zelensky’s country urgently needs. The meeting between officials to establish what help to provide.
He NATO chief Jens Stoltenbergwill ask its allies to commit to allocate a minimum of 40,000 million euros ($43.37 billion) annually to finance military aid to Ukrainean alliance source told Reuters on Thursday, while the organization’s foreign ministers meet in Prague.
Until now a figure had not been publicly proposed, but NATO officials had previously considered an amount of 100 billion euros in five years, or 20,000 million euros annually.
Military aid to Ukraine during the conflict with Russia
In view of uncertainty about future US support for Ukraine due to Donald Trump’s possible return to the White Houseforeign ministers on Friday will discuss ways to put military aid to Ukraine on a more solid long-term footing.
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Talks will focus on finalizing details of a support package for Ukrainewhich is intended to be agreed upon at the NATO summit to be held in Washington from July 9 to 11, and which will also include changes to the way in which supplies of weapons and ammunition are organized.
“We need to maintain that current level of support as a minimum to provide the predictability that Ukraine needsfor as long as necessary”, The NATO source said, adding that the allies had provided some €40 billion a year since Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The German newspaper Handelsblatt said earlier Thursday that Stoltenberg was seeking a commitment of $40 billion a year. Stoltenberg proposed that NATO assume the coordination of international military aid to Ukrainegiving the alliance a more direct role in the war against the Russian invasion, although without compromising its own forces.
The Kremlin said Thursday that the United States, NATO and some European countries They are encouraging Ukraine to continue what they called kyiv’s “senseless war” against Russia and accused them of escalating tensions in recent weeks.
Source: Ambito
