Germany said on Wednesday that it would provide Ukraine more funding to intensify domestic weapons production, including those with long -range capacities, and also increase the shipment of military equipment, an announcement that came both under the name of Moscow and Ukraine to extend their arsenals.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced the stages, without offering details, during a joint press conference with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine, who visited Berlin in order to obtain more acute help from European industrial power.
Mr. Zelensky’s visit is his third meeting with Mr. Merz since the German chief took office this month. This underlines Mr. Merz’s efforts to restore German leaders among European allies to weaken American commitments to NATO, and the importance of his country in maintaining the Ukrainian war effort.
Before going to Germany, Mr. Zelensky said that the funding guarantee to extend the production of interior weapons from Ukraine would be a central objective.
“We need financial support,” Zelensky told journalists on Tuesday during a briefing in kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. “This is the biggest problem – not technological limits or a lack of long -range weapons. It is a matter of money.”
In his Tuesday evening address To the nation, Mr. Zelensky listed the equipment that his country needed: “Attack drones, interceptors, cruise missiles, Ukrainian ballistic systems – these are the key elements. We have to make them all. “
