This new aid to Ukraine represents an investment of 50 million euros. Sébastien Lecornu also asked the allies to make an effort to pay for 60 other cannons.
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France is willing to finance twelve additional Caesar cannons for Ukraine, announced Thursday January 18 the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu. He also called on Ukraine’s allies to make an effort to strengthen kyiv’s capabilities against Russia. These twelve Caesars represent an investment of 50 million euros. “There will remain 60 cannons to finance, this is the message that I am sending to all of our allies”declared Sébastien Lecornu during the launch in Paris of the “artillery coalition”, a ceremony attended by his Ukrainian counterpart, Roustem Oumerov, by videoconference and 23 allied nations of Ukraine.
These twelve Caesars, produced by Nexter (Franco-German group KNDS), will be added to the 49 already deployed in Ukraine and the six ordered which must be delivered “in the next weeks”according to the ministry.
France has the capacity to produce 60 more, according to the minister, or some 250 million euros, “a sum which, it seems to me, is accessible for the various budgets of the allies”, he continued in front of representatives of 23 countries supporting Ukraine’s defense.
