“President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky urged Western allies to provide about $ 30 billion by the end of the year to increase the domestic production of weapons and restrain the offensive of Russia.”, – WRITE: epravda.com.ua
About it reports Bloomberg.
“We are not working at full capacity yet,” Zelensky said on Tuesday at a press conference in Kiev. According to him, it is $ 30 billion to cover this deficit. He called this amount a “approximate estimate” of the value of Ukraine’s military goals.
The Zelensky government is increasingly focusing on internal efforts, as Trump’s diplomacy has not yet produced results, and Russian troops have increased attacks with rockets and drones – this month there were one of the largest strikes in the three years of the war.
Financing issues are critical because the volume of international assistance that has come from the beginning of a full -scale invasion of Russia in 2022 is declining and the end of the fighting is not visible.
Zelensky said the source of funding could be frozen Russian assets – and he plans to urge the countries of the Seven (G7) Group (G7) to intensify efforts in this direction. Last year, G7 offered a $ 50 billion loans ($ 56.5 billion), which should be provided with profits of approximately $ 300 billion of frozen Russian assets.
“These are the assets of the country that brought the war to our land,” Zelensky said. – “I think there are many tools to finance Ukrainian military efforts.”
Zelensky also emphasized the need to increase military drones to 1000 units and raise the number of drone operations against Russia from 100 to 300-500 per day.
“It will show the Russians that the answer will be if partners will help us,” he said. – “The problem is not in production capacity, but in financing.”
Recall:
Ukraine has transferred $ 770 million to foreign weapons suppliers as a prepayment, but much of these weapons and ammunition have not been delivered.