“The message [Putinam] is that we will continue to do everything necessary to make sure that he does not achieve his goals and that Ukraine wins,” the head of the alliance told Reuters news agency and Hessen radio.
It is planned that the coordination of Western military aid to Kyiv will gradually be taken over by a complex in Wiesbaden, the administrative center of the federal state of Hesse.
This step is seen by many as an attempt to protect the aid mechanism from the consequences of the re-entry of Republican Donald Trump into the White House, according to “Reuters”.
The center is expected to employ a total of around 700 people, including Ukrainian military personnel and units stationed at NATO facilities in Belgium, Poland and Romania.
The Wiesbaden base is also home to a US unit responsible for long-range missiles.
Washington plans to temporarily deploy them in Germany from 2026, thus creating a counterweight to the threat of missiles deployed in the Königsberg (Karalyţi) area of Russia, according to “Reuters”.