During the day, the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba affirmed to have met with the American Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and to have discussed with him the “ways to increase U.S. and international support for Ukraine, including military assistance”said the Ukrainian minister on Twitter.
This week, the Ukrainian minister again put pressure on Westerners. His interest focused in particular on the German battle tank Leopard 2, which Poland, which has one, said it was ready to supply to kyiv, subject to the green light from Berlin.
The German government for its part reminded Poland that the delivery of German-made Leopard 2 tanks without the prior agreement of Berlin was “illegal”. However, Germany does not expect such a situation to arise and is continuing its consultations to decide how to act.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksi Reznikov is convinced that his country will be able to receive tanks and fighter planes, he said in an interview with the BBC. During this same interview, he also stated that “Ukraine as a country, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, became members of NATO. De facto, not de jure. Because we have weapons and we know how to use them”.
Meanwhile, NATO has moved several of its surveillance planes currently stationed in Germany to Romania, where they will be closer to Russia’s war against Ukraine. The devices should remain in place for several weeks.