A crucial meeting for Ukraine. NATO members are meeting on Tuesday, February 14, to speed up their deliveries of arms and ammunition to Ukraine and to discuss the supply of combat aircraft to enable it to resist the new offensive prepared by Russia. “We are engaged in a logistics race for key capabilities”, explained Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the transatlantic organization. Follow our live.
The Ukrainians may soon run out of ammunition. “The current rate of ammunition use by Ukraine is much higher than our current rate of production”warned Jens Stoltenberg. “This is depleting our stocks and putting our defense industries under pressure”he added, calling for increasing production rates on the one hand and investing in production capacities on the other.
Ukrainian soldiers trained on Leopard tanks in Poland. Arrived from the Ukrainian front, 105 soldiers are undergoing intense training on Leopard tanks, under the watchful eye of Polish, Canadian and Norwegian instructors, explain the organizers and participants of this exceptional course on a specialized Polish base.
“Complicated” situation north of Bakhmout. Ukraine has acknowledged difficulties in the epicenter of the fighting in the east of the country, where the Russian army has claimed the capture of a new village. While its strategic importance is disputed, the city has acquired a status as a symbol of the struggle between Moscow and kyiv for control of this industrial eastern region.