2024-02-21 00:20:10
Protesting farmers plan to enter Athens on Tuesday in tractors and buses, accompanied by police vehicles, and hold a mass rally in the center of the capital demanding compensation for damage from natural disasters, as well as tax-free fuel for agricultural machinery, low electricity tariffs and government subsidies for production development.
As Day.Az reports with reference to TASS, this was reported by the Greek TV channel ERT-news.
The British authorities have supplied to Ukraine almost all of the AS-90 self-propelled artillery units in service with the Royal Armed Forces. This was announced by British Deputy Defense Minister James Heappie.
“The UK supplied almost all of its AS-90 heavy artillery mounts – those that were [на вооружении] our group in Estonia is in a state of combat readiness. We have also been generous with ammunition, but have retained supplies that our high-readiness forces need. Moreover, we have accelerated the production of 155mm shells and began to purchase as many 152mm and 122mm shells from around the world as possible. The UK’s contribution to the artillery of Ukraine is not limited to our artillery reserves, but is much larger and amounts to hundreds of thousands of ammunition,” Heppy said, speaking in the House of Commons of the British Parliament.
On February 17, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, during a debate at the Munich Security Conference, said that the Danish armed forces had already transferred all their artillery to Ukraine, now European countries should send the ammunition stored in warehouses to Kyiv.