Germany is preparing a €1.4B winter military aid package for Ukraine and is opening a joint defense enterprise with Ukraine.

According to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the main task of the new aid package is to create a protective shield against Russia’s plans to continue attacking critical infrastructure. The package will include air defense systems Patriot, Iris-T6, Gepard, etc.

“Civil and military aid from Germany since the beginning of the war has reached €24B, which is the second largest donor after the US”, said Scholz.

At the same time, the German defense concern Rheinmetall and the “Ukrainian Defense Industry” formed a joint venture that will service and repair the equipment supplied by our partners. “The production of leading models of Rheinmetall AG equipment will also be localized at this enterprise,” said Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.

He added that creating a joint venture is, without exaggeration, a landmark event that takes cooperation between countries to a qualitatively new level and will allow us to build the arsenal of the free world together.