Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has outlined the priorities at a gathering of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (also called the Ramstein Format), which is able to happen on Wednesday 15 October.
Supply: Zelenskyy on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda
Particulars: In line with Zelenskyy, on Monday, Ukrainian Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal reported on preparations for the brand new Ramstein assembly, which is able to happen on Wednesday at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
"Our priorities are air defence – and we now haven’t solely an inventory of the mandatory methods and missiles – but in addition a transparent understanding of which nation can guarantee immediate supply and beneath what situations," he added.
Zelenskyy additionally spoke concerning the work throughout the PURL programme – the acquisition of American weapons for Ukraine on the expense of European NATO allies – and SAFE – the EU's defence credit score mechanism.
"Whereas PURL has already confirmed efficient, the European instrument Safety Motion For Europe nonetheless must be crammed with really related content material. Specifically, we’d like such parts of nationwide participation by European international locations in SAFE that may deter Russia already now," Zelensky wrote.
Background:
- The Ramstein format was launched in March 2022 by the USA as a platform for coordinating navy assist to Ukraine, with the participation of greater than 50 international locations.
- After Donald Trump got here to energy in the USA, the UK and Germany took over the coordination of Ramstein conferences.
- The earlier Ramstein assembly occurred on 9 September in London.
- At that assembly, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius mentioned that his nation was within the technique of supplying two full Patriot methods to Ukraine.
- UK Defence Minister John Healey introduced London's plans to finance the manufacturing of long-range drones for Ukraine in the UK.
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