(This Jan.19 story has been formally corrected to say that 9 international locations have been concerned, not 11, within the headline and lead; removes Germany and Spain from paragraph 3, after Estonia revised its assertion)
By Andrius Sytas
TAPAMILITARYBASE, Estonia – A gaggle of 9 NATO international locations, together with Britain and Poland, pledged a raft of latest navy assist to assist Ukraine’s battle with Russia on Thursday forward of a crunch assembly on arms for Kyiv scheduled to happen in Germany on Friday.
“The West should keep united and proceed to assist Ukraine with navy assist,” Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur advised a information convention in his residence nation, held collectively together with his British counterpart and different officers.
“What Ukraine wants most is heavy weaponry … The toughest battles are nonetheless forward,” Pevkur mentioned.
Gathering at a navy base, the officers pledged missiles, stinger air defence programs, anti-aircraft weapons, machine weapons, coaching, and different gear and companies.
Britain, which has already introduced plans to ship tanks to Ukraine, will even ship 600 Brimstone missiles, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace mentioned as he outlined particulars.
Poland was sending S-60 anti-aircraft weapons with 70,000 rounds of ammunition and was able to donate an organization of German-made Leopard 2 tanks, “pending (a) wider coalition” of Leopard donors, in line with a joint assertion from the assembly.
The potential provide of Leopard tanks is predicted to be excessive on the agenda when a broader group of nation, together with the US, meets on Friday at Germany’s Ramstein Air Base.
The USA and Germany tried on Thursday to resolve a stand-off over the Leopard, which the German authorities has to this point resisted supplying to Ukraine, however no conclusion has to this point been communicated.
Kyiv has pleaded for the tank, which it believes would assist it to show the tide towards Russian forces.
Hours after the assembly the Danish authorities introduced it will donate 19 French-made Caesar howitzer artillery programs to Ukraine, fulfilling the want of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy however stunting the Nordic nation’s navy build-up.
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