2024-07-05 15:38:00
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenbergrevealed last Friday that the members of the Coalition agree provide an annual minimum of 40 billion euros in military support to Ukraine.
“Since the large-scale invasion of Russia, Allies provided around €40 billion in military aid each year. The allies agree that this is a minimum base, and I hope that the allies will decide at the summit maintain this level for the next year,” announced the Norwegian politician at a press conference before the meeting of alliance leaders next week in Washington.
In that quote, It is expected that NATO countries will give the green light to the package of measures to support Ukraineincluding a financial commitment to provide military assistance to the value of kyiv 40 billion euros this year.
Stoltenberg said that he also trusts that the member states of the transatlantic organization will agree to share the burden of that financial commitment “fairly, taking into account the size of its GDP” and provides “a sustainable level of funding for Ukraine to prevail“.
During 2024, Spain plans to provide Ukraine with military support worth 1 billion euros.
The Secretary General of the Alliance indicated that the level of support of 40 billion euros will be reviewed at the summit held by the leaders of NATO countries in The Hague in 2025, “above all, to ensure that our support is in line with the needs. of Ukraine.
This is also reflected in the support package for Ukraine that will be approved at the Washington summit next week The transatlantic organization takes upon itself the task of coordinating international military assistance which Ukraine receives to protect itself from Russian invasion, as well as training initiatives of its forces.
International military aid will be coordinated by a command led by a three-star general and staffed by around 700 people at NATO headquarters in Germany, according to Stoltenberg.
In addition, to transfer military support to Ukraine, logistics nodes will be enabled in Romania, Slovakia and Poland, according to related sources, although Kyiv will be in charge of bringing the equipment into its territory.
President of Russia, Vladimir Putinand the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbánheld this Friday “honest conversation” during their meeting in the Kremlin, the adviser to the Russian Presidency reported, Yuri Ushakov.
As Ushakov told the Russian press, Ukraine was one of the main issues the leaders addressed. “Bilateral cooperation was also discussed,” he said.
Immediately, Ushakov denied that Orbán gave Putin a message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskywith whom the Hungarian leader met three days ago.
Orbán said when he came to Moscow that this was part of his peace mission that started in Ukraine.
Considered the closest community leader to Moscow, the head of the Hungarian Government met last Tuesday in kyiv with the president of Ukraine, which he requested. consider negotiation with Russia a cease-fire that would allow peace talks to be “accelerated”.
Putin yesterday rejected the possibility of a ceasefire precedes agreements with results “irreversible to Ukraine and acceptable to Russia“.
The initiative takes place two weeks ago in Moscow to end the war in Ukraine through the annexation of four regions of Ukrainethe withdrawal of kyiv troops from the east and south of the country, and Ukraine withdrawing from NATO membership plans.
Shortly before the Prime Minister of Hungary arrived in Moscow, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, ie. Joseph BorrellOrbán said “does not represent the EU in any way“.
Orbán’s last meeting with Putin took place in February 2022, shortly before the start of the war in Ukraine.
(With information from EFE)
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