The German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that Berlin would send air defense and missile systems to kyiv in a future defense package.
Pistorius has listed four Iris-T air surface defense systems with missiles and 30 other missiles for Patriot systems among the components of an upcoming package in a commentary before the Coordination Group of the Ukrainian Defense (UDCG) on Friday, commonly known as Ramstein Group, at Nato HQ in Brustels.
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Pistorius added that the nations would also discuss the production of Western missiles in Ukraine under license, according to The Guardian. The publication noted that Pistorius is likely to remain in the new German coalition government.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a day before, said air defense was a key goal on Friday.
The package – The delivery chronology is not clear – would also include 120 portable air defense system by man (Manpads), 300 recognition drones, 25 other walking infantry combat vehicles, 15 leopard tanks, 14 artillery systems, 100 ground surveillance radars and 100,000 rounds of artillery shells, according to Ukraine Interfax.
The Ukrainian Minister of Defense, Rustem Umerov, also assisting at the Ramstein format meeting, thanked Berlin for the new package.
“Deliveries in 2025 will help us defend our sky (Iris-T systems with missiles, patriotic missiles) and will strengthen our positions on the battlefield (moders, leopards, artillery systems). Thank you, Germany, for our side. Together, we will ensure a fair and lasting peace in Europe, ”said UMEROV.
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The Ramstein meeting took place one day after the meeting of the “coalition of the will” in the same place, where the Western nations alluded to the progress of the planning of troop deployments in Ukraine but provided little details on the exact mechanism.
Asked about the deployments of troops provided for discussion, Pistorius refused to disclose details and said that an internal discussion at the current stadium should be maintained until the allies “find a way to go where we have to go”.
Zelensky and the US defense secretary Pete Hegseth should join the meeting virtually.
