In Kyiv, Pistorius announced the provision of €9B in military aid to Ukraine, though without Taurus missiles. “Germany will participate in the financing of long-range weapons (drones and missiles). We must provide the finances for this so that the Armed Forces of Ukraine can purchase materials. We plann... #BorisPistorius #Germany #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATO #SupportUkraine #TaurusMissile #UkraineNATO #Zelenskyy
The EU supports the notion of synchronizing sanctions with the US. The EU is prepared to collaborate with the US to simultaneously impose sanctions on Russia to compel Russian dictator Putin to agree to peace talks, stated European Commission President Ursula von der... #BorisPistorius #LindseyGraham #NordStream #RussianOilPriceLimit #SanctionsAgainstRussia #SecondarySanctions #UrsulavonderLeyen
The first results from Ramstein: Record package from Britain and €400M in aid from the Netherlands. The UK has announced a new large aid package for Ukraine, which includes 100,000 drones to be provided throughout the year. This represents 10 times more than last year, and the total is a record, amo... #ArtilleryShells #BorisPistorius #DonaldTrump #dronestoUkraine #GreatBritain #MilitaryAidforUkraine #PatriotSystems #Ramstein
Under Merz’s government, Germany could become Ukraine’s primary partner. Former ambassador to Germany and future representative of Ukraine to the UN Andriy Melnyk believes that under Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Germany could become Ukraine’s main partner. “This ... #AndriyMelnyk #BorisPistorius #FriedrichMerz #Germany #TaurusMissile
Ukraine has several principled objections within the peace plan’s framework, but Trump believes that Zelenskyy is ready to cede Crimea for the sake of peace. Foreign Ministry spokesman Georgy Tykhyy stated that Ukraine will not recognize Crimea or any other part of its territory as Russian, will not agree to restrictions on its military or defense industry... #BorisPistorius #Crimea #DonaldTrump #NATO #PeaceAgreement #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #TerritorialConcessions #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
EU countries plan to increase defense spending; Germany is confident that US aid to Ukraine will not decrease. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has called for an increase in defense spending by at least €30B. “After the special fund is exhausted, we will need at least €85B from 2028,” he sai... #BorisPistorius #DefenseSpending #EUdefense #Germany #Lithuania #MilitaryAidforUkraine #Poland #WarinUkraine
Five EU countries have created a working group to develop joint defense enterprises with Ukraine. After a meeting with his colleagues from Poland, France, Italy, and Britain, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius noted that European arms manufacturers will only benefit if they utilize free produ... #BorisPistorius #DefenseIndustryUkraine #Ramstein #WeaponsProduction
Germany is preparing new large aid packages for Ukraine that will include air defense and tanks. The German government plans to transfer new significant packages of military equipment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the first half of the year. The list of weapons that are planned to be provided... #AnnalenaBaerbock #BorisPistorius #Germany #LeopardBattleTanks #Marder #OlafScholz
The Ramstein allies have approved eight Ukrainian roadmaps to provide support until 2027. During a Ramstein meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Germany with the participation of President Zelenskyy, leaders of the capability coalitions approved eight roadmaps of support for Ukr... #BorisPistorius #LloydAustin #Ramstein #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Europe is debating EU troops being stationed in Ukraine. The German Defense Ministry announced the potential participation of its military in a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine if Kyiv and Moscow agree on a ceasefire. However, German Defense Minister Boris P... #AlexanderStubb #BorisPistorius #NATOsoldiers #PeaceInUkraine #PeacekeepingMission #WarEnding
The EU will spend the revenue from frozen Russian assets on armaments for Ukraine. The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, proposed directing a significant part of the future second tranche of revenue from frozen Russian assets to the Ukrainian defense industry. According to Borrel... #BohdanaSPG #BorisPistorius #JosepBorrell #RussianAssetsArrested #RussianAssetsProfits #WeaponsforUkraine
Pistorius expects the German government to allocate an additional €500M to supply weapons to Ukraine this year. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that negotiations to increase the current Ukrainian aid budget for this year, which currently stands at €7.5B, are “very promising” and are lik... #BorisPistorius #Germany #MilitaryAidforUkraine #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
The German Ministry of Defense is asking the Ministry of Finance to allocate an additional €4B for the supply of weapons to Ukraine. The head of the German Ministry of Defense, Boris Pistorius, is convinced that an additional €4B should be allocated from the budget to support Ukraine this year. About €7B has been allocated this yea... #BorisPistorius #ChristianLindner #DefenseSpending #Germany #LeopardBattleTanks #MilitaryAidforUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
Britain plans to increase its defense spending to 2.5% of GDP, and Germany is unhappy with its military spending. The new Prime Minister of the UK, Keir Starmer, has promised to increase the country’s defense spending to 2.5% of its economic output. He noted that this would become possible as soon as “... #BorisPistorius #DefenseSpending #Germany #GreatBritain #KeirStarmer #NATO
Germany will provide a new €500M aid package, a Patriot air defense system, and allow Ukraine to use its weapons to strike military facilities in Russia. During his trip to Odesa at the end of last week, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced a new €500M military aid package for Ukraine. The aid includes a large number of missiles for Iris-T... #BorisPistorius #Germany #IRIS-T #MilitaryAidforUkraine #PatriotSystems #RussianMilitaryTargets #WarinUkraine
Germany asks its partners to transfer more anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine, and Zelenskyy does not rule out attacks on nuclear power plants. The German government has launched an initiative to find additional means of air defense that can be transferred to Ukraine. The heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense, A... #AirDefenseSystems #AnnalenaBaerbock #BorisPistorius #NuclearThreat #RussianAggression #zaporizhzhiaNPP #Zelenskyy
The results of 20 Ramstein: the US promises victory to Ukraine, and Germany provides €500M in aid. US Defense Minister Lloyd Austin said at the opening of the 20th meeting of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine that Washington and the Ramstein coalition of countries will not allow Ukraine to be... #ArtilleryShells #BorisPistorius #LloydAustin #Ramstein #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
Ramstein meeting results in more weapons for Ukraine. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has promised to provide six Sea King Mk41 multirole helicopters with components and spare parts. Ukraine will receive 10 multi-functional inflatable vessels fro... #BorisPistorius #F16 #MilitaryAidforUkraine #Pentagon #Ramstein #SeaKingMk41
Ukraine starts joint production of armored vehicles with Rheinmetall, but Germany could not keep up with weapon production, so Azerbaijan and South Korea tried to help. Ukraine and German arms concern Rheinmetall will soon launch the production of armored vehicles on Ukraine’s territory, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced. He noted that Rheinmetall already ... #AmmunitionForUkraine #BorisPistorius #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DenysShmyhal #WeaponsProduction
The US has provided a $100M military aid package with HIMARS, while Germany surprises Kyiv with a big €1.3B package with IRIS-T systems. The new package of US defense assistance includes an additional HIMARS system, Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and TOW, Javelins, AT-4 anti-tank systems, and artillery shells of various calibers. In ad... #BorisPistorius #HimarsForUkraine #IRISTdefensesystem #Javelin #MilitaryAidforUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
The West is preparing Ukraine for a breakthrough in the war in 2024. Western countries are accumulating reserves to continue their military support of Ukraine in order to allow Ukraine’s Armed Forces to achieve a breakthrough in the summer of 2024. This will strengthe... #BillBlair #BorisPistorius #JensStoltenberg #MilitaryAidforUkraine #UkraineCounteroffensive #WarinUkraine
Germany has delivered Ukraine the first batch of new Gepard ammunition, and Belgium bought Sea Sparrow missiles. Ammunition for anti-aircraft self-propelled artillery installations was produced on a new production line of the Rheinmetall company, the German Ministry of Defense reported. “The war in Ukraine... #AmmunitionForUkraine #BorisPistorius #Gepard #SeaSparrowMissiles #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
Germany agreed to allocate a $770M weapons package to Ukraine. On Tuesday Germany pledged to send Ukraine a weapons and military package worth €700M ($769.9M), according to the Germany’s Ministry of Defense. In a statement, the country’s defense minis... #BorisPistorius #GermanyMilitaryAid #PatriotSystems #WeaponsforUkraine
Germany will provide Ukraine with a record €2.7B in military aid. According to the German Ministry of Defense, this is the largest single package of weapons Germany has provided to strengthen the Ukrainian armed forces since the beginning of the war. The head of the... #BorisPistorius #GermanyMilitaryAid #LeopardBattleTanks #WeaponsforUkraine
Leopard tanks with trained crews will arrive in March from Germany and Portugal. 21 Leopard-2 tanks from Germany and Portugal will arrive in Ukraine this month with trained crews, said German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius. The 18 German Leopard 2A6 tanks and 3 Portuguese tanks ... #BorisPistorius #LeopardBattleTanks #trainingforUAF
Ukraine will have fewer battle tanks delivered than was promised. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius indicated that the Western allies are struggling to put together two full battalions of Leopard 2 tanks to send to Ukraine as promised, reported Bloomberg. Germ... #BorisPistorius #LeopardBattleTanks #tanksforUkraine
Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands will send more than 100 tanks to Ukraine by spring. Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands will send more than 100 Leopard 1 battle tanks to Ukraine by spring 2024, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced during an unannounced visit to Kyiv. A... #BorisPistorius #LeopardBattleTanks #tanksforUkraine
France will send its first tanks to Ukraine in early February, Britain and Germany will follow suit in March. French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced the pending delivery but did not specify how many tanks his country plans to provide to Ukraine for security reasons. German Defense Minister Boris ... #BorisPistorius #tanksforUkraine #trainingforUAF
Stoltenberg is convinced a solution regarding tanks for Ukraine will be found soon. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reported a productive discussion with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius regarding supplying German battle tanks to Ukraine. He is confident that a solutio... #BorisPistorius #JensStoltenberg #tanksforUkraine
The decision on tanks for Ukraine will be a priority for the new German Minister of Defense. A decision on tank deliveries for Ukraine will be the first item on the agenda for Boris Pistorius, who will be Germany’s new defense minister. Boris Pistorius will succeed SPD politician Christ... #BorisPistorius #GermanyMilitaryAid #tanksforUkraine
