Berlin promises 500 million euros in additional weapons, partly in 2023
Germany will deliver some 500 million euros worth of new weapons to Ukraine, part of which in 2023, a German government spokesman said on Tuesday.
The deliveries include three Iris-T air defense systems, “a dozen recovery tanks, 20 truck-mounted rocket launchers,” as well as “precision ammunition and anti-drone devices,” he explained.
In total, these deliveries will reach an amount of around 500 million euros, according to this spokesman, who specifies that a large part will be delivered in 2023.
Why the date of August 24 is particularly feared by Kyiv
This Wednesday, August 24, is a doubly symbolic day, which greatly worries theUkraine. “Russia could go out of its way to do something particularly disgusting, particularly cruel,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in his traditional speech on Saturday.
“One of the key objectives of the enemy is to humiliate us”, to “sow discouragement, fear and conflict”, but “we must be strong enough to resist any provocation” and “make the occupiers pay for their terror”, he added. . the ukrainian president.
Why such fears? This day marks, first of all, the anniversary of Ukraine’s independence from the USSR in 1991. For thirty-one years, the country has been trying to “assert its autonomy from Russia”, Jérôme Pellistrandi tells BFMTV.com, Defense consultant for our antenna. “This is a date already connoted in normal times,” he adds. But this August 24 also represents six months after the beginning of the conflict with Russiaon February 24.
Washington will deliver new military aid of about three billion dollars
The United States will announce roughly $3 billion in new military aid to Ukraine to mark its independence day and six months of conflict, a US official said on Tuesday.
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“The worst scenario is behind us”: the Ukrainian Defense Minister wants to be reassuring
This Wednesday marks both the anniversary of Ukraine’s independence and the six months of the beginning of the war initiated by Russia. Despite the stalemate in the conflict and the loss of thousands of soldiersUkrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov wants to be reassuring. “The worst of the scenarios has been left behind”, he said on CNNin an interview on Tuesday.
“We are in a phase of stabilization of the entire battlefield,” he explains.
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