“President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly asks partners to hand over air defense missiles from warehouses; NATO assures that this work is already underway.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and NATO Head Mark Rutte in Kyiv on February 3 Source: joint press conference of Zelenskyi and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Kyiv, correspondent of “European Pravda”
Details: Volodymyr Zelenskyi, referring to Ukraine’s growing need for anti-aircraft interceptors, said that partner states can do more by transferring their existing missiles to the Armed Forces.
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This activity should not replace funding for the PURL program used to purchase weapons in the United States, but should complement it, the president said in a statement. “We continue to work together with Mark and all partners to preserve Euro-Atlantic cooperation,” he said, referring to NATO’s plans provide funding to PURL.
“But what is currently in the warehouses of our partners should really work to protect (Ukrainian skies),” Zelenskyy emphasized.
The Secretary General of NATO, for his part, reported that this work is already underway and named several countries that provide or are preparing to provide such assistance to Ukraine.
“I see many countries, including Turkey, Norway, Canada, Spain, who are already taking a detailed look at their stockpiles to find what they can transfer (to the Armed Forces) from warehouses, including A120, A9X (air-to-air missiles – EP), as well as PAC missiles for Patriot systems, which are critical for Ukrainian air defense,” he said.
Earlier, the Secretary General of NATO announced that the countries of Europe will find more than $15 billion for the purchase of weapons for the Armed Forces.
Mark Rutte also before coming to Kyiv EU countries “sitting on stocks of interceptors”to transfer these missiles to Ukraine.
Disruptions in supplies are a painful issue for Kyiv, in particular, Zelensky explained that he “ran into” Europe in Davos due to problems with missiles for air defense.